import curses
from contextlib import contextmanager

@contextmanager
def curses_session():

    try:
        # Initialize curses
        stdscr = curses.initscr()

        # Turn off echoing of keys, and enter cbreak mode,
        # where no buffering is performed on keyboard input
        curses.noecho()
        curses.cbreak()

        # In keypad mode, escape sequences for special keys
        # (like the cursor keys) will be interpreted and
        # a special value like curses.KEY_LEFT will be returned
        stdscr.keypad(1)

        # Start color, too.  Harmless if the terminal doesn't have
        # color; user can test with has_color() later on.  The try/catch
        # works around a minor bit of over-conscientiousness in the curses
        # module -- the error return from C start_color() is ignorable.
        try:
            curses.start_color()

            # Assign the terminal's default (background) color to code -1
            curses.use_default_colors()
        except:
            pass

        # Hide blinking cursor
        # curses.curs_set(0)

        # Initialize color pairs - colored text on the default background
        curses.init_pair(1, curses.COLOR_RED, -1)
        curses.init_pair(2, curses.COLOR_GREEN, -1)
        curses.init_pair(3, curses.COLOR_YELLOW, -1)
        curses.init_pair(4, curses.COLOR_BLUE, -1)
        curses.init_pair(5, curses.COLOR_MAGENTA, -1)
        curses.init_pair(6, curses.COLOR_CYAN, -1)

        yield stdscr

    finally:

        if stdscr is not None:
            stdscr.keypad(0)
            curses.echo()
            curses.nocbreak()
            curses.endwin()