gh-133579: consistently report C curses function failures

Doc/howto/curses.rst

@@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ your terminal won't be left in a funny state on exception and you'll be
 able to read the exception's message and traceback.
 
 
+.. _windows-and-pads:
+
 Windows and Pads
 ================
 

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-05-27-11-13-51.gh-issue-133579.KY9M6S.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+:ref:`curses.window <curses-window-objects>`: Consistently report failures
+of curses C API calls in Window methods by raising a :exc:`curses.error`.
+This affects :meth:`~curses.window.addch`, :meth:`~curses.window.addnstr`,
+:meth:`~curses.window.addstr`, :meth:`~curses.window.border`,
+:meth:`~curses.window.box`, :meth:`~curses.window.chgat`,
+:meth:`~curses.window.getbkgd`, :meth:`~curses.window.inch`,
+:meth:`~curses.window.insstr` and :meth:`~curses.window.insnstr`.
+Patch by Bénédikt Tran.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-05-27-11-18-13.gh-issue-133579.ohtgdC.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+:meth:`curses.window.refresh` and :meth:`curses.window.noutrefresh` now raise
+a :exc:`TypeError` instead of :exc:`curses.error` when called with an incorrect
+number of arguments for :ref:`pads <windows-and-pads>`. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-05-27-11-24-38.gh-issue-133579.WGPUC1.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+:mod:`curses`: Consistently report failures of curses C API calls in
+module-level methods by raising a :exc:`curses.error`. This affects
+:func:`~curses.assume_default_colors`, :func:`~curses.baudrate`,
+:func:`~curses.cbreak`, :func:`~curses.echo`, :func:`~curses.longname`,
+:func:`~curses.initscr`, :func:`~curses.nl`, :func:`~curses.raw`,
+:func:`~curses.termattrs`, :func:`~curses.termname` and :func:`~curses.unctrl`.
+Patch by Bénédikt Tran.