I want to use curses for a personnal Python project. However, when I try to import it, I get the following error :
>>> import curses
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/xxxxxx/.asdf/installs/python/3.9.13/lib/python3.9/curses/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
from _curses import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_curses'
I know this is an identified bug on windows, solved through the installation of windows-curses, however I can't solve the problem on my Ubuntu machine. Here are all the curses-related packages currently installed on the machine :
> apt search --installed curses
libncurses-dev 6.3-2 [Ubuntu/jammy main]
├── is installed
└── developer's libraries for ncurses
libncurses6 6.3-2 [Ubuntu/jammy main]
├── is installed
└── shared libraries for terminal handling
libncursesw5-dev 6.3-2 [Ubuntu/jammy main]
├── is installed
└── transitional package for libncurses-dev
libncursesw6 6.3-2 [Ubuntu/jammy main]
├── is installed
└── shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character support)
libtinfo6 6.3-2 [Ubuntu/jammy main]
├── is installed
└── shared low-level terminfo library for terminal handling
ncurses-base 6.3-2 [Ubuntu/jammy main]
├── is installed
└── basic terminal type definitions
ncurses-bin 6.3-2 [Ubuntu/jammy main]
├── is installed
└── terminal-related programs and man pages
pinentry-curses 1.1.1-1build2 [Ubuntu/jammy main]
├── is installed
└── curses-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG
Any idea ?
It appears that python 3.9.13 can't import curses. Using python 3.8.1 or 3.9.14 solved the problem.
EDIT : Add another python version supporting curses