curses: AttributeError: initscr

Cesar g0w1s0 at yahoo.ca
Sun Sep 1 22:22:00 EDT 2002


Cesar wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm running python 1.5/2.2.1 under redhat linux 7.2.
> 
> I'm trying to use the curses module like this :
> 
> 1: import curses
> 2:
> 3: screen = curses.initscr()
> 4:
> 
> and I get this error msg:
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "./curses_test.py", line 6, in ?
>     screen = curses.initscr()
> AttributeError: initscr
> 
> any idea ??

the problem was stupid !!!

in the same directory where my script live, there was an old file named 
curses.py. Then the instruction : "import curses" imported the bad one...

I'm new to python.. so..




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