ImportError: No module named _curses

pkgin install py27-pip-1.5.6

pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
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pip install --upgrade httpie
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Installing collected packages: requests, Pygments, httpie
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http google.com
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/pkg/bin/http", line 7, in <module>
    from httpie.__main__ import main
  File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/__main__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .core import main
  File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/core.py", line 23, in <module>
    from httpie.downloads import Download
  File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/downloads.py", line 15, in <module>
    from httpie.output.streams import RawStream
  File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/output/streams.py", line 5, in <module>
    from httpie.context import Environment
  File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/context.py", line 7, in <module>
    class Environment(object):
  File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/context.py", line 29, in Environment
    import curses
  File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.7/curses/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
    from _curses import *
ImportError: No module named _curses

[rghv]

EDIT_2: https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv/issues/240 mentions this and that thread seems to have the solution as well. An apt-get install libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libncursesw5 followed by a reinstallation of pyenv solved the problem.

@bixu - try installing the curses devel libs.

EDIT:This is only when used with pyenv. Guess I would have to log an issue with pyenv.

Seconded.

10:59:55 ~ 
 $ pyenv global 
2.7.6
11:00:41 ~ 
 $ type pip
pip is /edge/tools/pyenv/root/shims/pip
11:00:45 ~ 
 $ pip install httpie --upgrade
Collecting httpie
/edge/tools/pyenv/root/versions/2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:90: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
  InsecurePlatformWarning
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Collecting requests>=2.3.0 (from httpie)
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Collecting Pygments>=1.5 (from httpie)
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Installing collected packages: requests, Pygments, httpie
Successfully installed Pygments-2.0.2 httpie-0.9.2 requests-2.7.0
11:01:02 ~ 
 $ http GET github.com
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/edge/tools/pyenv/root/versions/2.7.6/bin/http", line 7, in <module>
    from httpie.__main__ import main
  File "/edge/tools/pyenv/root/versions/2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/__main__.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .core import main
  File "/edge/tools/pyenv/root/versions/2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/core.py", line 23, in <module>
    from httpie.downloads import Download
  File "/edge/tools/pyenv/root/versions/2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/downloads.py", line 15, in <module>
    from httpie.output.streams import RawStream
  File "/edge/tools/pyenv/root/versions/2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/output/streams.py", line 5, in <module>
    from httpie.context import Environment
  File "/edge/tools/pyenv/root/versions/2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/context.py", line 7, in <module>
    class Environment(object):
  File "/edge/tools/pyenv/root/versions/2.7.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httpie/context.py", line 29, in Environment
    import curses
  File "/edge/tools/pyenv/root/versions/2.7.6/lib/python2.7/curses/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
    from _curses import *
ImportError: No module named _curses
11:01:11 ~ 

A search points to this SO thread about UniCurses. But pip doesn’t seem to locate/get unicurses. Unicurses doesn’t look like a python module, if that’s indeed the true source. (Though it is mentioned on pypi)

Any other python module that once could use to get the curses functionality? pip search curses shows pyCDK but pip fails to install pyCDK as well.

[jamshid]

In my case httpie was reporting ImportError: No module named _curses because I was trying to run it with a custom python2.7 install on a CentOS6 machine. I had to pip uninstall httpie then pip2.6 install httpie to get it working.