Importing curses on Windows install calls the following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\Users\user name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\curses\__init__.py", line 13, in from _curses import * ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_curses' Importing curses as "_curses" does the same thing. I have tried the "repair" function and it has not worked.
The docs for the curses module say "While curses is most widely used in the Unix environment, versions are available for Windows, DOS, and possibly other systems as well." This is the only mention of platform support I can see. It might be worth making the platform support explicit in the docs.
Curses is available for Windows from Christopher Gohlke's site: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#curses We should clean up this situation, though, either by making the state of Windows curses support explicit in the docs or by actually adding support for it in the default distribution.
I would much prefer the curses module to be supported in newer versions since I believe that curses is installed as a built in module (not sure about that). Anyhow, thank you for your help but I have found a replacement module called "asciimatics" which for fills all the functions that I really need.
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status: open -> closedsuperseder: curses for win32resolution: duplicatestage: resolved
