NameError: name 'setupterm' is not defined??? How can I solve it?

Question

NameError: name 'setupterm' is not defined ??

How can I solve it?

File "c:\Users", line 5, in screen=curses.initscr() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Answer 1

setupterm is one of several terminfo (low-level) functions. PDCurses implements none of those, as noted in its HISTORY.md file:

• Eliminated term.h and terminfo.c, and moved mvcur() to move.c. These stub functions, done on request (with others then requesting that I take them away -- can't win), were a misguided attempt to facilitate using PDCurses with certain non-C languages -- which, apparently, they didn't end up actually doing. They're also, regrettably, specified as part of the X/Open curses standard, even though they in effect describe an entirely different interface layer (one on which traditional curses, but not PDCurses, is built).

That note was added for PDCurses 3.7, at the end of 2018. Earlier versions had a non-functional stub file.