> Perhaps you should simply remove the new function, and re-add it in 3.4 when you've thought it out a bit more.

Python 3 forces somehow to use Unicode, and the Unicode support of the curses module in Python 3.2 is incomplete or broken (see . Many issues have been fixed in Python 3.3. It would be a regression to remove get_wch(), it's an important function to use the curses module with Python 3.

Changes between Python 3.2 and 3.3:
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.3.html#curses