How do I get curses to work in Python 3.2 on win-64? I'm new to Python and when exploring Python in console I want to use some simple functions for console programming that don't emulate a typewriter terminal but rather a text screen terminal. I want to be able to clear the screen, position the cursor and do unbuffered reading from the keyboard. Also setting different colors for the text and background.
That could in Windows be accomplished by the handy WConio (http:// newcenturycomputers.net/projects/wconio.html) which contains just about everything that is needed for a console application to become useful. However I want to accomplish it in Python 3.2 because I lack the experience to build it myself. Now an alternative would be to use some flavor of curses. Although having a plethora of unnecessary functions it has the advantage of existing for different platforms. I'm currently running Python 3.2.2 on win-64 When Python is installed there is a Python32/Lib/curses library. As I understand it this is only a some sort of wrapper for a curses module to be downloaded and installed later?? So I downloaded and installed a curses module I that found and which seemed appropriate: curses-2.2.win-amd64-py3.2.exe from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ It installed some stuff directly in Python32/lib/sitepackages. Now when I try in a program to do things like: import curses stdscr = curses.initscr Python complains it can't find curses. However if I do import _curses stdscr = _curses.initscr etc., everything works fine. I shouldn't have to write the underscores though?? How can I fix that? Should I try to find some other version of curses? It seems I haven't yet grasped how to install a Python module? /John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
