[Pythonmac-SIG] error running test.py in 4Suite-0.12.0a3

[Jack Jansen]

On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 07:12 Europe/Amsterdam, Joel Rodrigues 
wrote:
> This may the source of my problems :
> ncurses-5.2X.pkg, package built by Chris Roberts. I don't know where I 
> got it. ANyone have a tip on an ncurses to download and for OS X ?

There's a good chance you run into errors with curses on MacOSX 10.1.

10.1 ships with an ancient curses, which isn't good enough for the 
Python curses module, so it is manually disabled. However, the curses 
implementation lives in libc, and because Python on 10.1 lives with a 
flat namespace for all globals even installing ncurses yourself and 
linking the curses module against that isn't guaranteed to work: if 
another extension module that was loaded earlier somehow refers to the 
old curses in libc your ncurses module will pick up that symbol and 
you're going to be hosed. All in all it's a pretty messy situation.

All this has been fixed for 10.2, where ncurses is included, it doesn't 
live in libc anymore and we have two-level namespaces. Each of these 
alone would have fixed the problem:-)

If you do want to try and continue with ncurses on 10.1: I had some 
success with the fink ncurses at the time.
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