User input in curses

[Coltrey Mather]

What is the best (or even a fairly good) way to get multi-line user input
in a python/curses application?  Is there a way to pipe input from an
external editor? perhaps a simple python+curses implementation of ed?

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| Coltrey Mather                             Scheol, Ltd. |
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