[Urwid] Error on running the first tutorial program

[Ian Ward]

Sharad Ganapathy wrote:
> Ian Ward wrote:
> 
>> Hi Sharad,
>>
>> What version of Urwid are you using?
>>
>> What happens when you just try to "import curses" from the python 
>> command line?
>>
>> Ian
> 
> Ian ,
> 
>  From the python command line :
> 
>  >>> print urwid.__version__
> 0.9.8.3
>  >>> import curses
>  >>> print curses.version
> 2.2

My best guess is that the terminal definitions on your system 
(terminfo/termcap) are not set up properly so curses doesn't know how to 
query the terminal size.

raw_display just assumes that the terminal uses a common escape sequence 
to query the terminal size, which works for most modern terminals.

So, you could either fix your terminfo/termcap (or TERM environment 
variable) or use raw_display if it is detecting the screen size properly.

Ian