install / run in a Windows environment

[nnako]

I'd like to use drawille on a Windows operating system (Windows 7 or 10). After successfully installing the drawille package into my virtual environment, using pip, using it by typing

>>> from drawille import Canvas

leads to this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\nnako\ENV__Python27\lib\site-packages\drawille.py", line 23, in <module>
    import curses
  File "C:\PROGS\Python__v2_7_9\Lib\curses\__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
    from _curses import *
ImportError: No module named _curses

So, it seems, there is a dependency on the curses package and Windows doesn't provide the package, natively. So I installed curses using the instructions from this StackOverflow post. But when I now enter my python installation and enter the following lines:

>>> from drawille import Canvas
>>> c=Canvas()
>>> c.set(10,10)
>>> print(c.frame())

the result on screen is:

Ôáä

and not a dot as expected (and as I see when using my Linux computer and the same lines of code).

Any hints?

[Philipp Wabnitz]

I can confirm this problem in parts so I'll try to provide as much information as possible:

My machine

Windows 7 x64
Python v3.6.1 on win32

Python stuff

• Installed drawille with pip install drawille
• Get the ImportError: No module named _curses when trying to import the module
• Installed curses‑2.2‑cp36‑cp36m‑win32.whl from pythonlibs
• No error anymore but different output in different console-applications (and different font-settings)

Testcode

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from __future__ import print_function
from drawille import Canvas
from math import sin, radians

c = Canvas()

for x in range(0, 1800, 10):
    c.set(x / 10, 10 + sin(radians(x)) * 10)

print(c.frame())

Output

cmd.exe

powershell

conemu

Conclusion

I'm not sure how this depends on font-settings but with conemu (which has a better font- and encoding-support than the other ones) it works fine.

[Tamás Szelei]

I can confirm that this also works in the new Windows Terminal app