diff --git a/builders/macos-python-builder.psm1 b/builders/macos-python-builder.psm1
index 35f1575..1cc87c7 100644
--- a/builders/macos-python-builder.psm1
+++ b/builders/macos-python-builder.psm1
@@ -74,7 +74,14 @@ class macOSPythonBuilder : NixPythonBuilder {
 
             if ($this.Version -gt "3.7.12") {
                 $configureString += " --with-tcltk-includes='-I /usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/include' --with-tcltk-libs='-L/usr/local/opt/tcl-tk/lib -ltcl8.6 -ltk8.6'"
-	    }
+	        }
+
+
+            # brew install ncurses readline
+            if ($this.Version -gt "3.7.17") {
+                $env:LDFLAGS += " -L$(brew --prefix bzip2)/lib -L$(brew --prefix readline)/lib -L$(brew --prefix ncurses)/lib"
+                $env:CFLAGS += " -I$(brew --prefix bzip2)/include -I$(brew --prefix readline)/include -I$(brew --prefix ncurses)/include"
+            }
         }
 
         ### Compile with support of loadable sqlite extensions. Unavailable for Python 2.*
diff --git a/tests/sources/python-modules.py b/tests/sources/python-modules.py
index 152d0d6..d657405 100644
--- a/tests/sources/python-modules.py
+++ b/tests/sources/python-modules.py
@@ -248,11 +248,6 @@ if sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
         'dataclasses',
     ])
 
-if (sys.version_info.major, sys.version_info.minor, sys.version_info.micro) == (3, 7, 17):
-    standard_library.remove('bz2')
-    standard_library.remove('curses')
-    standard_library.remove('readline')
-
 # 'macpath' module has been removed from Python 3.8
 if sys.version_info > (3, 7):
     standard_library.remove('macpath')