tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified

[error13]

on Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon

to reproduce: from simple_term_menu import TerminalMenu

 terminal_menu = TerminalMenu(["entry 1", "entry 2", "entry 3"])
 terminal_menu.show()

tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified line 3, in terminal_menu = TerminalMenu(["entry 1", "entry 2", "entry 3"])

very new to python and programing so forgive me if this is easily fixed

[IngoMeyer441]

Hey @error13 and welcome to Python programming! The TERM variable is usually set by your terminal emulator and is used by tput to generate the correct control codes for things like cursor movement, text formatting and others. Which terminal emulator do you use?

[error13]

Terminator running the command: echo $TERM ~ $ xterm-256color

i checked the config file in from Terminator Config.py 'term' : 'xterm-256color',

other then this and I'm out of gas thanks for your help

also i ran: env | grep TERM > result.txt TERMINATOR_UUID=urn:uuid:625f39e6---ect.... COLORTERM=truecolor TERMINATOR_DBUS_NAME=net.tenshu.Terminator20x1a6021154d881c TERMINATOR_DBUS_PATH=/net/tenshu/Terminator2 TERM=xterm-256color

[IngoMeyer441]

As a first workaround you could call Python like this:

TERM=xterm-256color python

But I don't know why this is necessary for your setup. I will fetch Linux Mint 19 and try to run simple-term-menu with Terminator.

[IngoMeyer441]

I cannot reproduce your problem on a fresh Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon in Terminator :disappointed:.

[error13]

so i tried your workaround and that worked. so i did some digging around in pycharm and found by selecting emulate terminal in output console fixed the problem thanks for all your help!