Ned Deily <n...@python.org> added the comment:
"Install a supported _curses library"
That's not correct advice. _curses is the name of the support module written in
C in the Python Standard Library. If it is not available to import in an
installation, it's most likely because the build of the module failed because
the third-party libraries that implement curses functionality was not installed
or not found during the build. How you install the third-party curses library
varies greatly by platform or distribution. Some distributions have multiple
variants of curses packages, ones with just libraries and others ("-dev"
packages) that include header files necessary for Python to build its _curses
module. The Dev Guide has some information on dependencies in general and the
details for _curses are in the code in setup.py. It's also possible that the
distributor has broken Python curses support out into a separate package. So
it's not easy to provide a message with a useful specific suggestion; there are
just too many cases.
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