curses fails when calling addch on the bottom right corner

Question

I am starting to learn curses in Python. I am using Python 3.5 on Mac OS X. When I try to write in the bottom-right corner, the program crashes with the following error:

$ python ex_curses.py
[...]
  File "ex_curses.py", line 19, in do_curses
    screen.addch(mlines, mcols, 'c')
  _curses.error: add_wch() returned ERR

The example program is:

import curses

def do_curses(screen):
    curses.noecho()
    curses.curs_set(0)
    screen.keypad(1)

    (line, col) = 12, 0
    screen.addstr(line, col, "Hello world!")
    line += 1
    screen.addstr(line, col, "Hello world!", curses.A_REVERSE)

    screen.addch(0, 0, "c")

    (mlines, mcols) = screen.getmaxyx()
    mlines -= 1
    mcols -= 1
    screen.addch(mlines, mcols, 'c')

    while True:
        event = screen.getch()
        if event == ord("q"):
            break
    curses.endwin()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    curses.wrapper(do_curses)

I have a feeling that I'm missing something obvious, but I don't know what.

Answer 1

window.insch(...) can place a character at the lower right of a window without advancing the cursor. Any character at that position will be bumped to the right without causing an error.

Answer 2

For the future readers. After the @Thomas Dickey answer, I have added the following snippet to my code.

try: 
    screen.addch(mlines, mcols, 'c')
except _curses.error as e:
    pass 

Now my code looks like:

import curses
import _curses

def do_curses(screen):
    curses.noecho()
    curses.curs_set(0)
    screen.keypad(1)

    (line, col) = 12, 0
    screen.addstr(line, col, "Hello world!")
    line += 1
    screen.addstr(line, col, "Hello world!", curses.A_REVERSE)

    screen.addch(0, 0, "c")

    (mlines, mcols) = screen.getmaxyx()
    mlines -= 1
    mcols -= 1
    try:
        screen.addch(mlines, mcols, 'c')
    except _curses.error as e:
        pass

    while True:
        event = screen.getch()
        if event == ord("q"):
            break
    curses.endwin()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    curses.wrapper(do_curses)