add pypy kind unicode workaround in __init__

we could fix the tests, but this might help somebody else out along the
line.  Why is pypy always so difficult ;/

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/blessed/terminal.py b/blessed/terminal.py
index b379719..1e17d73 100644
--- a/blessed/terminal.py
+++ b/blessed/terminal.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import collections
 import contextlib
 import functools
 import warnings
+import platform
 import codecs
 import curses
 import locale
@@ -180,7 +181,13 @@ class Terminal(object):
             # send them to stdout as a fallback, since they have to go
             # somewhere.
             try:
-                curses.setupterm(self._kind, self._init_descriptor)
+                if (platform.python_implementation() == 'PyPy' and
+                        isinstance(self._kind, unicode)):
+                    # pypy/2.4.0_2/libexec/lib_pypy/_curses.py, line 1131
+                    # TypeError: initializer for ctype 'char *' must be a str
+                    curses.setupterm(self._kind.encode('ascii'), self._init_descriptor)
+                else:
+                    curses.setupterm(self._kind, self._init_descriptor)
             except curses.error as err:
                 warnings.warn('Failed to setupterm(kind={0!r}): {1}'
                               .format(self._kind, err))