Recommended way to distinguish between pads and windows?

[Mark Dickinson]

Hi all,

I'm trying to fix Python's interface to ncurses (the 'curses' module), which
seems to be broken with ncurses 5.7, and I wanted to ask your advice:

The problem is that Python's source repeatedly uses C code like the
following to distinguish windows and pads (where self->win has
type WINDOW):

  if (self->win->_flags & _ISPAD)
    /* use pechochar here */
  else
    /* use wechochar instead */

but with ncurses 5.7, the internals of WINDOW are hidden, so the
attempted access to _flags fails with a gcc 'dereferencing pointer
to incomplete type' error.  What's the recommended solution for
this type of problem?  We could just #define NCURSES_OPAQUE
to 0, but that seems risky:  presumably these internals are hidden
for a good reason.  Is there some public method of determining
whether something of type WINDOW is actually a pad,
or should Python try to keep track independently of which objects
are windows and which are pads?

Thanks,

Mark Dickinson

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