Where is curses in python 3.9.5?

Question

I just updated from 3.6 and curses is nowhere to be found in pip list. When I try to run my program I get

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/media/HD/Documents/Python/program/menu.py", line 1, in <module>
    import curses
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/curses/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from _curses import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_curses'

"pip3 install curses" gives me

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement curses (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for curses

Any ideas? Does python not come with curses anymore?

Edit: This is in Ubuntu

I believe what you are looking for is called unicurses, but I could be wrong as I'm not a linux user. — Have a nice day, May 26 '21 at 19:13
Does this answer your question? [Error no module named curses](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17410116/error-no-module-named-curses) — Ayush Garg, May 26 '21 at 19:18

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 22 '22 at 05:05

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I solved this issue by using below command. It adds support for the standard Python curses module on Windows. Read more about it here.

pip install windows-curses

answered Feb 22 '22 at 05:05

EdwardFunnyHands

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 26 '21 at 19:31

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For Linux, you need to install UniCurses which is OS-independent. Note that UniCurses hasn't need maintained in a while, but you could find some more information on it here.

answered May 26 '21 at 19:31

PApostol

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It doesn't install. "Fatal error: this Python release does not support ctypes, please upgrade your Python distribution if you want to use UniCurses on a linux platform." But I'm using 3.9.5 the most recent version of python. – Ben Alan May 26 '21 at 21:33
Given how old UniCurses is, there's a good chance it's not compatible with the most recent version of Python. – PApostol May 26 '21 at 21:52
https://pypi.org/project/Uni-Curses/ https://github.com/unicurses/unicurses#installing-unicurses – Giorgos Xou Oct 24 '21 at 21:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 02 '21 at 17:36

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I solved this problem by using an earlier version of python (3.6.9)

Sadly, this is probably the only solution.

answered Jun 02 '21 at 17:36

Ben Alan

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Where is curses in python 3.9.5?

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