No backspace on curses on iTerm (mac)

[ragreener]

BPO	23598
Nosy	@ned-deily
Superseder	bpo-16232: curses.textpad.Textbox backtrace support
Files	cursesbackspace.patch

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2015-03-07.07:12:27.524>
created_at = <Date 2015-03-06.11:56:44.774>
labels = ['extension-modules', 'OS-mac', 'type-bug']
title = 'No backspace on curses on iTerm (mac)'
updated_at = <Date 2015-03-07.07:12:27.522>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/ragreener'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2015-03-07.07:12:27.522>
actor = 'ned.deily'
assignee = 'none'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2015-03-07.07:12:27.524>
closer = 'ned.deily'
components = ['Extension Modules', 'macOS']
creation = <Date 2015-03-06.11:56:44.774>
creator = 'ragreener'
dependencies = []
files = ['38355']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 23598
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 2.0
messages = ['237345', '237421']
nosy_count = 2.0
nosy_names = ['ned.deily', 'ragreener']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = '16232'
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue23598'
versions = ['Python 3.4']

[ragreener]

iTerm uses ^? for backspace which is curses.ascii.DEL, patch, makes curses.ascii.DEL use same behaviour as curses.ascii.BS

[ned-deily]

Thanks for the suggested change. This problem and a similar change has already been suggested in open bpo-16232. Closing this issue as a duplicate and continuing the discussion there.