256-color terminal required (make it work with putty)

[ghost]

Hello

I get errors when running the program from putty: terminal output is messed up and I get this message:

_curses.error: init_pair() returned ERR

as explained here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18551558/how-to-use-terminal-color-palette-with-curses

I had TERM=xterm-256color

To make it work I had to set TERM=xterm-256color

You could add a warning that the TERM value is not OK, or fall back to simpler colors.

[paulmenzel]

I guess you meant: „I had TERM=xterm“, right?

At least, I can reproduce this issue setting TERM=xterm, and running ./sifter.py --unk --dis --len --sync --tick -- -P1 -texit.

[f4grx]

yes that was what I meant :)