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The _curses.window.get_wch() method is not available in Python 3.13 for macOS universal2 installer #128085
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Bug description:
With macOS 64-bit universal2 installer for Python 3.13(both 3.13.0 and 3.13.1), following code raises
error AttributeError: '_curses.window' object has no attribute 'get_wch'. Did you mean: 'getch'? .
from curses import wrapper
def main(stdscr):
c = stdscr.get_wch()
wrapper(main)However, it can be used on the same box if I build Python from source code myself.
Tested on MacOS Sequoia 15.0:
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With macOS 64-bit universal2:
python3.13 -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_config_vars('HAVE_NCURSES', 'HAVE_NCURSESW'))" [0, 0] -
Built from source:
./python.exe -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_config_vars('HAVE_NCURSES', 'HAVE_NCURSESW'))" [0, 1]
CPython versions tested on:
3.13
Operating systems tested on:
macOS
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picnixz commentedon Dec 22, 2024
@ned-deily Thanks for taking it. I wanted to have a look since I was working on curses recently but my backlog keeps growing with more pressing tasks and you are much more knowledgable on macOS-related stuff.
ned-deily commentedon Apr 7, 2025
As of the Python 3.14.0 alpha 5 pre-release and the upcoming 3.13.3 and 3.12.10 releases, python.org macOS installers now build and link with ncurses 6.5, the current stable release, which should resolve this issue.
atsuoishimoto commentedon Apr 7, 2025
Python 3.14.0 alpha 6 works fine. Thank you.