[3.15] gh-154874: Fix the sign of curses.termattrs() (GH-154875) - #155548

Summary

Backport of GH-154875 to 3.15.

curses.termattrs() returns a chtype mask, but it was routed through an int to check for ERR. On a terminal that advertises A_ITALIC (topmost bit of a 32-bit mask), the result came back negative and the attribute functions rejected it:

>>> curses.termattrs()
-2130771968
>>> curses.newwin(1, 1).attrset(curses.termattrs())
OverflowError: can't convert negative value to unsigned int

This returns the mask unsigned via PyLong_FromUnsignedLong, matching getattrs(), slk_attr(), and term_attrs().

The main-branch regression test uses newterm() over a pseudo-terminal (NewtermTestBase), which is not present on 3.15. The 3.15 test is adapted onto TestCurses and skips when the current terminal does not advertise a top-bit attribute.

(cherry picked from commit 0b083c4)

Fixes #154874

Test plan

• CI: test_curses (requires curses resource)
• Local: full CPython rebuild not run in this environment; change matches main fix in Modules/_cursesmodule.c and includes NEWS + adapted unit test.

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• Issue: curses.termattrs() returns a negative value on italic terminals #154874

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