ImportError: No module named '_curses' when trying to import blessings

Question

I am trying to run this:

from blessings import Terminal

t = Terminal()

print (t.bold(\'Hi there!\'))
print (t.bold_red_on_bright_green(\'It hurts my eyes!\'))
         


        

Answer 1

The curses module is not supported on Windows machines. From the module documentation:

While curses is most widely used in the Unix environment, versions are available for DOS, OS/2, and possibly other systems as well. This extension module is designed to match the API of ncurses, an open-source curses library hosted on Linux and the BSD variants of Unix.

Install the unofficial windows binary for curses from here and try again.