curses.init_pair(0) raises ERR

[bagage]

Trying to call curses.init_pair(0, curses.COLOR_RED, curses.COLOR_BLACK) raises an exception. You can reproduce it by changing pair from 1 to 0 in example/rain.py:

-         curses.init_pair(1, curses.COLOR_BLUE, bg)
+         curses.init_pair(0, curses.COLOR_BLUE, bg) 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".\rain.py", line 99, in <module>
    curses.wrapper(main)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\curses\__init__.py", line 102, in wrapper
    return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds)
  File ".\rain.py", line 36, in main
    curses.init_pair(0, curses.COLOR_RED, bg)
_curses.error: init_pair() returned ERR

However, curses.color_pair(0) is working properly I think (it returns black which is the default I believe?).

[bagage]

Looking at source code, it seems that indeed 0 is not a valid pair value, though it works great on Linux.

More exactly, it seems that pair 0 is reserved to default colors. Maybe init_pair should call assume_default_colors if pair==0?

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