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not working on windows wint mingw64 console

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#36 opened on Aug 22, 2018

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Trerminal windows 10 > MINGW64 $ python --version Python 3.6.5

$ python -m wpm Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python36\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in run_module_as_main "main", mod_spec) File "C:\Python36\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "C:\temp\wpm\wpm_main.py", line 14, in import wpm.commandline File "C:\temp\wpm\wpm\commandline.py", line 22, in import wpm.config File "C:\temp\wpm\wpm\config.py", line 14, in import curses File "C:\Python36\lib\curses_init.py", line 13, in from _curses import * ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_curses'

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Identify why curses is missing on Windows MinGW64 and provide a fallback or installation instructions for curses on Windows.
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