"""Try to illustrate a curses bug.

This would often occur in long-running ipython sessions, but I have no idea how
to reliably reproduce it.
"""

import _curses as curses
import sys
import termios

flags0 = termios.tcgetattr(sys.stdout)
curses.initscr()
curses.endwin()
flags1 = termios.tcgetattr(sys.stdout)

print 'Is the terminal final state correctly restored ?',flags0==flags1

# Restore terminal state
termios.tcsetattr(sys.stdout,termios.TCSANOW,flags0)