diff -r 000000000000 -r ca70ae20a155 src/extras/pyrepl/dumbcurses.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/src/extras/pyrepl/dumbcurses.py	Tue Feb 16 10:07:05 2010 +0530
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+#
+# Curses stub to provide minimal functions required by SocketConsole.
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2005 Nokia Corporation
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+# Grabbed from vt100. The original codes had delay expressions ($<xx>)
+# in them, which have been removed.
+_capabilities={ 
+    'bel': '\x07',
+    'civis': None,
+    'clear': '\x1b[H\x1b[J',
+    'cnorm': None,
+    'cub': '\x1b[%dD',
+    'cub1': '\x08',
+    'cud': '\x1b[%dB',
+    'cud1': '\n',
+    'cuf': '\x1b[%dC',
+    'cuf1': '\x1b[C',
+    'cup': '\x1b[%d;%dH',
+    'cuu': '\x1b[%dA',
+    'cuu1': '\x1b[A',
+    'dch': None,
+    'dch1': None,
+    'el': '\x1b[K',
+    'hpa': None,
+    'ich': None,
+    'ich1': None,
+    'ind': '\n',
+    'pad': None,
+    'kcuu1': '\x1b[A',
+    'kcud1': '\x1b[B',
+    'kcuf1': '\x1b[C',
+    'kcub1': '\x1b[D',
+    'kdch1': '\x1b[3~',
+    'knp': '\x1b[6~',
+    'kpp': '\x1b[5~',
+    'ri': '\x1bM',
+    'rmkx': '\x1b[?1l\x1b>',
+    'smkx': '\x1b[?1h\x1b='}
+
+def tigetstr(cap):
+    '''Return terminal capability string for given capability'''
+    if _capabilities.has_key(cap):
+        return _capabilities[cap]
+    else:
+        return None
+
+def tparm(str,*args):
+    return str%(args)
+