Well, I implied that _curses.so and readline.so disappeared as one would expect, dependencies on libncurses.so and libreadline.so instead showing up in Python itself. It's very strange that this happens with ncurses and readline, when both db and Tcl/Tk got linked in with no fuss. Anyway, I built static-only (.a) versions of readline and ncurses, which did the trick.
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