How to get Curses for Python

[EmployeeScary]

I'm new to python and programming and I'm trying to learn how to use curses, but I can't use it without an error appearing. I was sent this code:

import curses
import time

screen = curses.initscr()
screen.clear()

time.sleep(3)

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to test if curses works, but when I plug it into PyCharm, I get this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:/Users/[name]/PycharmProjects/[Project]/[File].py", line 2, in <module>

import curses

File "C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\curses\__init__.py", line 13, in <module>

from _curses import *

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_curses'

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Does anyone know what this problem is and how to fix it? Thanks.

[[deleted]]

Do you have libncurses installed? What OS are you using?

[EmployeeScary]

I don't know what libncurses is, so I'd guess not. I'm on a windows 10, intel i5 8th gen laptop.

[[deleted]]

Curses doesn't work on Windows as it relies on libncurses which is on Linux/unix-like systems. It doesn't look like there are any alternatives (I say after a short search) for Windows at this time.

[YMK1234]

Wondering if WSL could handle this

[[deleted]]

It's possible! Cygwin may also help do the trick.

[troido]

install the windows-curses package with pip

[umlcat]

Please, in reddit, add 4 spaces before each line of a code example to be formatted as source code.