visidata won't run because of AttributeError: '_curses.curses window' object has no attribute 'get_wch'

[reagle]

I apologize, but I know very little about C and packages. I am not able to use run visidata with pyenv 3.12.0 (it works fine with 3.11.*). You can see the discussion thread on visidata's github page where @saulpw suggests that perhaps pyenv's 3.12.0 is not compiled with ncursesw? Is this true? What can I do to use visidata with 3.12.0 ?

[native-api]

perhaps pyenv's 3.12.0 is not compiled with ncursesw

Looks like that. Note that in https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/wiki#suggested-build-environment and https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/wiki/Common-build-problems#prerequisites, we specifically suggest using libncursesw over libncurses.

[reagle]

Do you mean visidata should libncursesw -- or something else?

[native-api]

You need to link CPython against libncursesw when building it. Installing the suggested dependency libraries is usually enough.

[reagle]

@native-api, thank you for the response, but I don't understand. I'm a simple user wondering why visidata won't run on pyenv 3.12.0 when it will on 3.11.* -- appraently because of ncurses issues. I'm trying to figure out who should change whatever is it that they are doing that prevents this.

[native-api]

Check that you've completed the installation instructions, then uninstall and reinstall the faulty version.

If the problem persists, please report an issue and provide the necessary diagnostic information as per the issue template. That will let us say something more specific.