Solaris and tinter: cann't fint curses

[Jackson]

I'm tyring to use the tinter (curses gui) module with 2.2.1 on
a Solaris-2.8. If I load the curses seperatly it works, but
fails if when import tinter with:

Thanks.
David

>>> import tinter
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "./tinter.py", line 66, in ?
    import curses                           # I use curses
because I'm reasonably sure everyone has it
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/curses/__init__.py", line 15, in ?
    from _curses import *
ImportError: No module named _curses
>>>