pip install windows-curser displaying error

Question

I wanted to install curses to do a project on menu making system using Python. When I tried to import curses in jupyter, I received an error telling me there is no package such as curser... So I tried to install the curser using pip install. This is what I typed:

pip install windows-curser

And I received an error written like this:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement windows-curser (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for windows-curser

This is the full error message I get:

Answer 1

Are you getting confused between windows-curses and windows-curser? I don't know, but "curses" is a common library, and "curser" I haven't heard of.

Edit: After some searching, yes, windows-curses is a python package, but windows-curser doesn't appear anywhere. I think this was a typo.

Answer 2

You don't need to install curses because it is part of the standard library. But not on Windows. The documentation says

The Windows version of Python doesn’t include the curses module. A ported version called UniCurses is available. You could also try the Console module written by Fredrik Lundh, which doesn’t use the same API as curses but provides cursor-addressable text output and full support for mouse and keyboard input.