On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:16, Jan Sundström <sundstro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 Okt, 06:59, Christoph Gohlke <cjgoh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Oct 15, 1:13 pm, Jan Sundström <sundstro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> `import curses` should work. What exactly is the error message? Does >> `import curses` work outside your program/program directory? >> >> The curses package is part of the standard library and usually >> installed in Python32\Lib\curses. On Windows the _curses.pyd files is >> missing in the standard distribution. curses-2.2.win-amd64-py3.2.exe >> installs the missing _curses.pyd file into Lib/site-packages. > > Thanks for the tip to check in what library it works, that set me on > track tofind a silly mistake that I had done. Now everything works > fine. > > But, how come that the Windows distribution for Python doesn't include > the _curses.pyd file?
It's not a standard library module on Windows. The curses Christoph mentioned is built on the PDCurses library, which is an external project. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
