Bug description:

The docs say complexchar stores the color pair separately and without the color_pair() limit, but on a wide build attr carries the packed pair and saturates at 255:

>>> curses.complexchar("A", curses.A_BOLD, 1).attr == curses.A_BOLD
False
>>> hex(curses.complexchar("A", 0, 300).attr), curses.complexchar("A", 0, 300).pair
('0xff00', 300)
>>> hex(curses.complexchar("A", 0, 1000).attr)

curses_cell_attr_pair() returns getcchar()'s attrs, which include A_COLOR. Its narrow branch already masks that out, as GH-154703 did for inch().

complexchar is new in 3.16, so no released version is affected.

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Linked PRs

• gh-154840: Keep the color pair out of curses complexchar.attr #154841