diff --git a/Doc/library/curses.rst b/Doc/library/curses.rst
index 91e72df3ee8962..4fe2d5b1e1cb9a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/curses.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/curses.rst
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ The :mod:`curses` module defines the following data members:
 
    An integer representing the current version of the ncurses extensions.
 
-   .. versionadded:: 3.13
+   .. versionadded:: next
 
 
 .. data:: version
diff --git a/Modules/_cursesmodule.c b/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
index e683f7bbeb3c31..dd33e88329c2b7 100644
--- a/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
@@ -5071,9 +5071,6 @@ cursesmodule_exec(PyObject *module)
         return -1;
     }
 #endif /* NCURSES_VERSION */
-#ifdef NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS
-    SetDictInt("NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS", NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS);
-#endif
 
 #define SetDictInt(NAME, VALUE)                                     \
     do {                                                            \
@@ -5222,6 +5219,10 @@ cursesmodule_exec(PyObject *module)
     }
     SetDictInt("KEY_MIN", KEY_MIN);
     SetDictInt("KEY_MAX", KEY_MAX);
+
+#ifdef NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS
+    SetDictInt("NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS", NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS);
+#endif
 #undef SetDictInt
     return 0;
 }