Curses module.
Jp Calderone
exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Tue Jul 15 20:01:46 EDT 2003
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:03:33PM -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to learn Python, in particular the curses module. My system
> is running Slackware 9.0 and the verion of Python that comes installed
> with Slackware 9.0 is Python 2.2.2.
>
> I've been trying to access the curses.wrapper module without any
> success. I know that the wrapper exists in /usr/lib/python2.2/curses yet
> any reference that I make to it is rebuffed by the interpreter.
>
> Here's the python script I'm trying to run:
>
> [snip apparently correct code]
>
> This is the error message that I get when I try to run the script from
> the CLI:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./curses3.py", line 15, in ?
> curses.wrapper(newWindow())
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'wrapper'
>
> Any ideas as to what I could be doing wrong?
>
Do you, perhaps, have a file named "curses.py" in your current directory?
If so, "import curses" will load this, and not the stdlib module.
You could also try printing "curses.__file__" to make sure the module is
really coming from where you believe it is.
Jp
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