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 The Python curses module
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-Thy Python module is a fairly simple wrapper over the C functions provided by
+The Python module is a fairly simple wrapper over the C functions provided by
 curses; if you're already familiar with curses programming in C, it's really
 easy to transfer that knowledge to Python.  The biggest difference is that the
 Python interface makes things simpler by merging different C functions such as