[tor-commits] [nyx/master] Drop pointless advice about a python-curses package

atagar at torproject.org atagar at torproject.org
Thu Oct 20 17:49:16 UTC 2016


commit 08b6e81b6212a69e3ee5ddd6cec98b86a161dee7
Author: Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org>
Date:   Wed Oct 19 10:37:32 2016 -0700

    Drop pointless advice about a python-curses package
    
    Curses is a builtin module of python and there doesn't appear to be a
    'python-curses' deb. Not entirely sure why I included this many years back
    (maybe it was something python 2.5 related?). Thanks to Henrik for the patch.
---
 nyx/__init__.py | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nyx/__init__.py b/nyx/__init__.py
index 69ede9b..740685d 100644
--- a/nyx/__init__.py
+++ b/nyx/__init__.py
@@ -116,13 +116,6 @@ def main():
         advice = ', you can find it at https://stem.torproject.org/download.html'
 
       print('nyx requires stem' + advice)
-    elif exc.message == 'No module named curses':
-      if distutils.spawn.find_executable('apt-get') is not None:
-        advice = ", try running 'sudo apt-get install python-curses'"
-      else:
-        advice = ''  # not sure what to do for other platforms
-
-      print('nyx requires curses' + advice)
     else:
       print('Unable to start nyx: %s' % exc)
 





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