broken ncurses on python 3.0

[Christian Heimes]

icarus wrote:
> OS: win32, python 3.0
> 
> I've been trying to run some curses demos and I get this:
> 
> C:\Python\Lib\curses>python textpad.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "textpad.py", line 3, in <module>
>     import curses
>   File "C:\Python\lib\curses\__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
>     from _curses import *
> ImportError: No module named _curses
> 
> The C:\Python\include does not have the curses.h header.
> Reinstalling from the x86 msi binary doesn't do it.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get this working? maybe it's just the w32 version
> that missed ncurses

The Windows binaries doesn't have and never had an ncurses extension. 
The extension doesn't suport ncurses on Windows at all - in all versions 
of Python.

Christian