how to set the background color of a window with curses

[Marco Herrn]

Hi,

I am trying to set a backround color for a window and did it with

stdscr.bkgd(' ', curses.COLOR_BLUE)

But that doesn't work. It seems to do nothing.
What am I doing wrong?

Bye
Marco
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