Setupterm could not find terminal, in Python program using curses

Question

I am trying to get a simple curses script to run using Python (with PyCharm 2.0).

This is my script:

import curses
stdscr = curses.initscr()
curses.n         


        

Answer 1

You must set enviroment variables TERM and TERMINFO, like this:

export TERM=linux
export TERMINFO=/etc/terminfo

And, if you device have no this dir (/etc/terminfo), make it, and copy terminfo database.

For "linux", and "pcansi" terminals you can download database:

• http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2134052&d=1374459598
• http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=552287&page=4