Mitype complains about missing _curses module on Windows

[Vinzent03]

Subject of the issue

When I start mitype with mitype in cmd on windows I get the error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_curses' In some research I found out, that curses is not really supported on windows. To fix this problem I had to runpip install windows-curses. I think that should be documentated.

Your environment

• windows
• mitype: 0.2.0
• python: 3.8.5
• terminal: windows terminal

Steps to reproduce

after a fresh installation of mitype run mitype on windows

Expected behaviour

It should be able to start.

Actual behaviour

PS C:\Users\user> mitype
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\Scripts\mitype.exe\__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
  File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\mitype\app.py", line 3, in <module>
    import curses
  File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\curses\__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from _curses import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_curses'

Your proposed fix (if any)

run pip install windows-curses

[Mithil467]

Hey @Vinzent03 👋

This was documented earlier, but PR #45 was merged to make it such that this dependency is automatically resolved on windows. So for upcoming releases this is supposed to work out of the box. Although, I see that currently there is no way for users to know that they need windows_curses for mitype v0.2.0 and lesser.

v0.2.1 will be out very soon, and users won't face this issue any more.

I have added this information in BUILD.md so that windows users do not face any difficulty while running mitype directly from source.

Thank you very much for pointing it out, I really appreciate the trouble taken to find the cause and filing an issue. 🙌🏼

[Vinzent03]

Thank you much for the fast response. To add it to BUILD.md is a good idea, that should make it clearer. Glad to see what's else in the update.