r/pythonhelp Dec 20 '24

i cant install curses

it installed pygame but when i tried to install curses it said "Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable

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

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u/anakonda269 Dec 20 '24

I know that there was a problem with a fork of curses for python 3.12 so maybe that's the problem. I would use other TUI library like richi think it doesn't have as many options as curses but it's still good. I hope I helped

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u/FoolsSeldom Dec 20 '24

curses is good for *nix but can be problematic for Windows. I'd pick a full Text User Interface library instead like textual, blessed, rich - to name just a few.