curses issue

[otalado]

I have a fresh install of Debian 10 /lxde. The installed Python3 version is 3.7.3 I intended to learn how to use the curses with Python (https://docs.python.org/3/howto/curses.html). I immediately encountered trouble, with the first example. Statement: from curses import wrapper triggers an error: ImportError: cannot import name 'wrapper' from 'curses'.
Googling did not take me anywhere close to a solution.

I do apologize for posting here, I realize this is not about coding, but more like installation and setup of python environment, but it seemed to be less wrong than the other possibilities.

[bowlofred]

Can you show the full output from
python -V (or "python3" or however you are invoking your python) and
python -c "from curses import wrapper"?

[tmz]

Do you have a file called curses.py in the current directory? That will show this behaviour. Just rename that file to something else.


debian@vps-12345678:~/source/py$ ls -la
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 2 debian debian 4096 Jun 29 13:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 debian debian 4096 Jun 29 13:56 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 debian debian 12551 Jun 29 13:56 main.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 debian debian 161 Jun 29 13:56 wim.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 debian debian 305 Jun 29 13:56 x.py
debian@vps-12345678:~/source/py$ sudo python3 -c "from curses import wrapper"
debian@vps-12345678:~/source/py$ cp x.py curses.py
debian@vps-12345678:~/source/py$ sudo python3 -c "from curses import wrapper"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/debian/source/py/curses.py", line 1, in <module>
from curses import wrapper
ImportError: cannot import name 'wrapper' from 'curses' (/home/debian/source/py/curses.py)
debian@vps-12345678:~/source/py$ rm curses.py
debian@vps-12345678:~/source/py$ sudo python3 -c "from curses import wrapper"
debian@vps-12345678:~/source/py$