no ptyhon curses module on solaris?

[Shea Martin]

Shea Martin wrote:
> I just installed active python, and I get this error:
> 
> % python
> ActivePython 2.4.3 Build 11 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Apr  3 2006, 18:34:02) [C] on sunos5
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import curses
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/curses/__init__.py", line 15, in ?
>     from _curses import *
> ImportError: No module named _curses
> 
> Any ideas why?  I have libncurses 5.2 on my machine.
> 
> Thanks

For some reason the package was not linked against ncurses in the 
Solaris version.  I ended up just building Python from source.

~S