I perhaps should have mentioned I linked the Python curses module against ncurses rather than BSD curses. Perhaps NetBSD's curses doesn't support this feature, and that's why it's not included there.
In any case, I removed the relevant #defines in _cursesmodule.c and got a Python that includes all the KEY_ constants in the curses module, but these constants (for the arrow keys at least) seem not to match the actual keycodes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
