This is not exactly a bug, it’s that there are no release wheels yet for 3.11, use pip install pygame --pre
(--pre
stands for pre release), it will install pygame
2.1.3.dev8
and you can use that, 2.1.3 is coming soon but I can’t tell for sure when.
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Was able to duplicate this issue with:
- Python 3.11.0
- macOS Monterey 12.6
- Pygame 2.1.2
I usedpip3 install pygame
and got a huge error message, as shown in the OP.
I do have a question, if there is no wheel made for Python3 3.11.0, is installing pygame 2.1.3.dev8
the only option? Is this release stable?
@arknaut Well, that’s the latest version of pygame
that has wheels for Python 3.11 so it would be the most stable for that version of Python. Also, yeah, it should be stable enough on its own anyways, but again, it’s kind of temporary, I can’t tell for sure (or at all) but soon wheels for 2.1.3 should be released and they will be made for 3.11 too.
@Matiiss — Okay thanks! (just clarifying) pygame 2.1.3.dev8
has been released as a temporary version of pygame so that python 3.11.0
users can continue using pygame
.
Uh, no, it’s more like 2.1.3.dev8
(it’s technically a pre-release btw) happens to have wheels for Python 3.11, it’s not specifically temporarily released for 3.11 because really 2.1.3 is kind of released already, it just doesn’t have wheels yet. But don’t take my word for it, however, I’m pretty sure it’s not something specifically done.
2.1.3dev8
is the only version with 3.11 wheels prebuilt. If you really want to use 2.1.2
, you’ll have to build the wheels yourself. But 2.1.3dev8
is essentially the full 2.1.3
release, but in pre-release form. It wasn’t specifically released to target 3.11, but since 3.11 was coming out soon, compatibility with 3.11 was added to dev8
by starbuck5 and ankith
Are there any updates on this? Or an ETA for the new Pygame version?
Hello everyone. I observe the same problem on Armbian
pip install pygame
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting pygame
Downloading pygame-2.1.2.tar.gz (10.1 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10.1/10.1 MB 3.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [30 lines of output]
WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"
Using UNIX configuration...
/bin/sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-install-m1yp62ur/pygame_44d4c02831ed4c49940d26d640b55b6a/setup.py", line 359, in <module>
buildconfig.config.main(AUTO_CONFIG)
File "/tmp/pip-install-m1yp62ur/pygame_44d4c02831ed4c49940d26d640b55b6a/buildconfig/config.py", line 225, in main
deps = CFG.main(**kwds)
File "/tmp/pip-install-m1yp62ur/pygame_44d4c02831ed4c49940d26d640b55b6a/buildconfig/config_unix.py", line 188, in main
DependencyProg('SDL', 'SDL_CONFIG', 'sdl2-config', '2.0', ['sdl']),
File "/tmp/pip-install-m1yp62ur/pygame_44d4c02831ed4c49940d26d640b55b6a/buildconfig/config_unix.py", line 39, in __init__
self.ver = config[0].strip()
IndexError: list index out of range
Hunting dependencies...
---
For help with compilation see:
https://www.pygame.org/wiki/Compilation
To contribute to pygame development see:
https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
---
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed
× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.
note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.
@rammfire if you read a few messages above, Matiiss gave the solution
@rammfire if you read a few messages above, Matiiss gave the solution
Unfortunately this is not really a solution for other packages that depend on Pygame.
For instance, I am about to release a new version of Expyriment, which depends on Pygame, and I am currently mainly holding it back due to this issue. Would be great to have some idea on when proper Python 3.11 support is planned (roughly, like within the next few days, or will it still be months?).
@fladd The full release of 2.1.3 is almost out. I’m hoping it’ll be within a week or two at most, but that’s really up to the discretion of the lead maintainer right now
Cant wait for the full release ! 😄
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Though pip install pygame --pre
works on python 3.11 on my windows 11. I would like to use the release version of pygame. 😄
Looking forward to pygame-2.1.3.
C:UsersLiu.D.H>pip install pygame --pre
Collecting pygame
Downloading pygame-2.1.3.dev8-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl (10.6 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10.6/10.6 MB 4.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: pygame
Successfully installed pygame-2.1.3.dev8
C:UsersLiu.D.H>
C:UsersLiu.D.H>pip install pygame —pre
Can confirm this works. (Tested on Win10)
I would advocate for a point release that basically doesn’t change anything from the previous, but simply provides wheels for the new python version. A lot of beginners will get caught up on this while a new patch release is prepared. e.g., 2.1.3 simply ships additional 3.11 wheels, 2.1.4 gets moved to new patch release.
I would advocate for a point release that basically doesn’t change anything from the previous, but simply provides wheels for the new python version. A lot of beginners will get caught up on this while a new patch release is prepared. e.g., 2.1.3 simply ships additional 3.11 wheels, 2.1.4 gets moved to new patch release.
To the best of my knowledge, 2.1.3 is ready for release. Just waiting on the head maintainer to actually release it.
@fladd The full release of 2.1.3 is almost out. I’m hoping it’ll be within a week or two at most, but that’s really up to the discretion of the lead maintainer right now
Since it has been over a month now: Is there any news regarding the release?
Since it has been over a month now: Is there any news regarding the release?
To the best of my knowledge, the lead maintainer has not said anything to anyone in that time. Nobody else has the ability to release 2.1.3, so unfortunately we’re stuck waiting
@illume Python 3.11 has been out for a month and a half (and pygame’s main
branch has been on 2.1.4dev1
for just as long). More and more people are starting to move to 3.11 and the fact that the only version of pygame with support for 3.11 requires knowledge of how to install a prerelease might detract users from continuing to use pygame. Is there something specific holding back the release? There are also other projects that are waiting for pygame 2.1.3 to fully release so they can update their dependencies.
I’ve tried and tried, but can’t even instal the pre-release.
RPi 4B, Bullseye (64-bit), Python3.11.
pi@rxtouchlite:~/pgtest $ pip install pygame —pre
Collecting pygame
Downloading pygame-2.1.3.dev8.tar.gz (12.1 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 12.1/12.1 MB 2.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Preparing metadata (setup.py) … error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [33 lines of output]
WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"
Using UNIX configuration...
/bin/sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-install-9_sp3ju8/pygame_06121d1e121e4eafb99504b0ad01a83b/setup.py", line 399, in <module>
buildconfig.config.main(AUTO_CONFIG)
File "/tmp/pip-install-9_sp3ju8/pygame_06121d1e121e4eafb99504b0ad01a83b/buildconfig/config.py", line 231, in main
deps = CFG.main(**kwds, auto_config=auto)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/tmp/pip-install-9_sp3ju8/pygame_06121d1e121e4eafb99504b0ad01a83b/buildconfig/config_unix.py", line 189, in main
DependencyProg('SDL', 'SDL_CONFIG', 'sdl2-config', '2.0', ['sdl']),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/tmp/pip-install-9_sp3ju8/pygame_06121d1e121e4eafb99504b0ad01a83b/buildconfig/config_unix.py", line 39, in __init__
self.ver = config[0].strip()
~~~~~~^^^
IndexError: list index out of range
Hunting dependencies...
---
For help with compilation see:
https://www.pygame.org/wiki/Compilation
To contribute to pygame development see:
https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
---
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed
× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.
note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.
Are you sure you are using the pip from python 3.11 there? Pis come with
multiple python versions. I thought you had to use pip3 on there
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On Sat, 17 Dec 2022, 11:38 Michael Naylor, ***@***.***> wrote:
I’ve tried and tried, but can’t even instal the pre-release.
RPi 4B, Bullseye (64-bit), Python3.11.
***@***.***:~/pgtest $ pip install pygame —pre
Collecting pygame
Downloading pygame-2.1.3.dev8.tar.gz (12.1 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 12.1/12.1 MB 2.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Preparing metadata (setup.py) … error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [33 lines of output]
WARNING, No «Setup» File Exists, Running «buildconfig/config.py»
Using UNIX configuration…
/bin/sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
/bin/sh: 1: sdl2-config: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File «<string>», line 2, in <module>
File «<pip-setuptools-caller>», line 34, in <module>
File «/tmp/pip-install-9_sp3ju8/pygame_06121d1e121e4eafb99504b0ad01a83b/setup.py», line 399, in <module>
buildconfig.config.main(AUTO_CONFIG)
File «/tmp/pip-install-9_sp3ju8/pygame_06121d1e121e4eafb99504b0ad01a83b/buildconfig/config.py», line 231, in main
deps = CFG.main(**kwds, auto_config=auto)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File «/tmp/pip-install-9_sp3ju8/pygame_06121d1e121e4eafb99504b0ad01a83b/buildconfig/config_unix.py», line 189, in main
DependencyProg(‘SDL’, ‘SDL_CONFIG’, ‘sdl2-config’, ‘2.0’, [‘sdl’]),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File «/tmp/pip-install-9_sp3ju8/pygame_06121d1e121e4eafb99504b0ad01a83b/buildconfig/config_unix.py», line 39, in __init__
self.ver = config[0].strip()
~~~~~~^^^
IndexError: list index out of range
Hunting dependencies…
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For help with compilation see:
https://www.pygame.org/wiki/Compilation
To contribute to pygame development see:
https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
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Are you sure you are using the pip from python 3.11 there? Pis come with multiple python versions. I thought you had to use pip3 on there
…
I think so. Both ‘pip’ and ‘pip3’ report version 22.3.1 from the same ‘penv global 3.11.0’.
Ah, I suspect it is because the pi is looking on the piwheels repository instead of PyPI and it won’t find any 3.11 wheels on piwheels because piwheels only builds wheels for a maximum of python 3.9.
If your pip is configured to use piwheels, but you want to use PyPI instead, you can remove or comment out the extra-index-url configuration in /etc/pip.conf
Otherwise you will have to learn to build pygame from source if you want to use 3.11 on a raspberry PI.
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Had same error. Used temporary fix.
Please, please, please post this solution on the homepage of Pygame!
I’m an experienced coder but new to python and spent several hours thinking I had done something wrong.
Unfortunately, the only person with access to the pygame.org website is the same person that can fix this whole mess in the first place. But, they’ve been unresponsive so far.
But, they’ve been unresponsive so far.
Bummer. First installs always seem to go sideways.
Hello, everybody.
I followed what was written here, but when I entered the «import pygame» command, I got an error (Windows can not find import
).
Who can help? Where is my mistake? Which direction in should I look for a solution to the problem?
Did you try to run import pygame
directly in command prompt? You need to be in an actual Python shell to do that (which you can get to just by typing python
Did you try to run
import pygame
directly in command prompt? You need to be in an actual Python shell to do that (which you can get to just by typingpython
Thank you! This little detail helped a lot.
I’m also trying to install from source at the moment and I’m getting the following error:
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 503: Egress is over the account limit.
The pre-release wheel does work for me though.
thx!
This is not exactly a bug, it’s that there are no release wheels yet for 3.11, use
pip install pygame --pre
(--pre
stands for pre release), it will installpygame
2.1.3.dev8
and you can use that, 2.1.3 is coming soon but I can’t tell for sure when.
thx!
FYI: pygame 2.1.3 had just been released with support for Python 3.11. A bit thank you to the maintainers!
I think this can be closed.
Nice, I updated my pygame now.
C:UsersLiu.D.H>pip install -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple -U pygame Looking in indexes: https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple Requirement already satisfied: pygame in c:usersliu.d.happdatalocalprogramspythonpython311libsite-packages (2.1.3.dev8) Collecting pygame Downloading https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/packages/23/c4/64a649c9c9dc649c8c01d7f1027c0656155fc48ba17e6fdd2cb38a993610/pygame-2.1.3-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl (10.4 MB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10.4/10.4 MB 6.4 MB/s eta 0:00:00 Installing collected packages: pygame Attempting uninstall: pygame Found existing installation: pygame 2.1.3.dev8 Uninstalling pygame-2.1.3.dev8: Successfully uninstalled pygame-2.1.3.dev8 Successfully installed pygame-2.1.3 C:UsersLiu.D.H>
I’m trying to install Pygame. I am running Windows 7 with Enthought Python Distribution. I successfully installed pip
, but when I try to install Pygame using pip
, I get the following error:
«Could not install requirement Pygame because of HTTP error HTTP error
400: Bad request for URL …»
I can’t find anything about this issue with a Google search, but I did find another Stack Overflow question that prompted the asker to use the following command:
pip install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
This gave me the following error:
Cannot find command hg
I’m not sure what else to do, as everything I find with a Google search is for Mac, so I don’t know how well I can follow those instructions on Windows.
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Steps to install PyGame using pip
-
Install build dependencies (on linux):
sudo apt-get build-dep python-pygame
-
Install mercurial to use
hg
(on linux):sudo apt-get install mercurial
On Windows you can use the installer: Download
-
Use pip to install PyGame:
pip install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
If the above gives
freetype-config: not found
error (on Linux), then trysudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
and then repeat 3.
Alternative way:
# Grab source
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
# Finally build and install
cd pygame
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
8
Try doing this:
sudo apt-get install mercurial
sudo pip install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
answered Jun 18, 2014 at 6:31
An update to this may be required, as it stands in version 1.9.1 it should simply install using:
pip install pygame
However, it look like there is a bug with their pypi repository, see:
https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/issues/59/pygame-has-no-pypi-page-and-cant-be
So, if you want the most recent release, you have to point directly at the ftp file ala:
pip install http://www.pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.1release.tar.gz
I suppose this will be fixed in the 1.9.2 release but for now this works.
I would note that the answer supplied by Pratyush works as well, but requires the user to install mercurial if they don’t have it and downloads the trunk version, so really, not ideal unless you absolutely need it.
answered Dec 24, 2015 at 0:56
Caveat: I’m not familiar with the Enthought Distribution, so this might not help.
As you’re trying to install on Windows, if you don’t want to have to mess around with C compilers, there are pre-built binary wheels for pygame here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame
Select a package appropriate to you python version[0] and Windows architecture [1]. Download to C:UsersUserDownloadpip install E:envpygame-1.9.2a0-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl
and install with pip install E:envpygame-1.9.2a0-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl
Mercurial binaries can be found on the same page, if you would like to install from source. This method would mean compiling pygame from source, for which you probably want to use this compiler package.
[0] python --version
[1] powershell "gwmi win32_operatingsystem | select osarchitecture"
answered Jan 21, 2015 at 21:57
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The command below worked for me on Mac OS X El Capitan:
pip3 install pygame
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Install on MAC:
brew install homebrew/python/pygame
answered May 29, 2016 at 15:44
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Just
sudo pip install pygame
worked for me
answered Nov 13, 2016 at 21:30
Had this issue on macOS Sierra, where apt-get doesn’t work.
Managed to solve the issue through the following steps:
First I had to install the Mercurial via Brew:
brew install mercurial
Then, I had to install Pygame dependencies:
brew install sdl sdl_image sdl_mixer sdl_ttf smpeg portmidi
Finally I used pip3 to install Pygame:
pip3 install pygame
Hope this helps!
answered May 5, 2017 at 10:39
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Try
python3 -m pip install -U pygame --user
This worked twice for me on windows 7 and windows 10
answered Mar 8, 2018 at 20:14
The most current, the best way to install pygame is always available at:
https://www.pygame.org/wiki/GettingStarted
How to use pip depends on the operating system. So unless you have always updated and tested answers for 15 different operating systems then just send people to that page. All answers to this question are wrong for various different operating systems.
Currently, for windows, this is the way to install it in the cmd prompt. (If you already have pip installed, and people know what pip is… best just send people to the GettingStarted page).
py -m pip install pygame --user
answered Feb 6, 2018 at 19:00
I did use these instructions here from the official site.
But i had to change the python3 part of the command to just py.
answered Feb 8, 2018 at 14:55
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Try: python -m pip install pygame
Or: py -m pip install pygame
answered Nov 17, 2018 at 19:54
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Try pip install pygame
or pip3 install pygame
.
These should work for you.
If this does not work for you put -m
before pip
and python
before
-m
.
If putting -m
does not work try reinstalling python
answered Jun 16, 2020 at 21:26
If you are working on windows, the command below should work fine
pip install pygame
If you are working on Linux, the command below should work fine
sudo apt-get install python-pygame
answered Jul 24, 2020 at 15:56
Type this in command prompt
pip install pygame
or
py -m pip install pygame
answered Nov 10, 2020 at 12:30
WINDOWS
If you are on a windows 10 device then you should use this command but first make sure you have Python installed from https://python.org, if you do run this in command prompt
py --version
and then whatever version it says you have (which you downloaded) keep it in mind we will use it later for now just incase try to upgrade pip incase you are on a outdated version I will be using 3.9 for the version for the rest of this as an example
py -3.9 -m pip --upgrade pip
After that if you have it already satisfied or it upgraded run this command in command prompt
py -3.9 -m pip install pygame
And wait for it to download
And to make sure it worked run this
py -3.9 -m pygame --version
If it shows the version you downloaded it!
MacOS
For MacOS do the same but then run this command to install it
python3 -m pip install -U pygame --user
or if it wont work
py -3.9 -m pip install -U pygame --user ( or just pip3 )
to see if it worked run this
python3 -m pygame.examples.aliens
or
py -3.9 -m pygame.examples.aliens
I hope this helped
answered Nov 12, 2021 at 21:51
I have never used Enthought distribution, but you could try to use Anaconda distribution which is also great too.
Anaconda Distribution (Any OS):
From the docs:
Update conda to the current version.
Type the following:
conda update conda
If a newer version of conda is available, type y to update:
Proceed ([y]/n)? yCheck to see if a package you have not installed named
“pygame” is available from the Anaconda repository (must be
connected to the Internet):
conda search pygame
Conda displays a list of all packages with
that name on the Anaconda repository, so we know it is available.Install this package into the current environment:
conda install pygame
Check to see if the newly installed
program is in this environment:
conda list
Install on Windows (both python 2.7 and 3.7):
pip install pygame
Install on raspberry pi:
sudo pip3 install pygame (python 3.7)
sudo pip install pygame (python 2.7)
answered Aug 7, 2018 at 7:45
I think if you go to Command Prompt and type
py -m pip install pygame
that’s what works for me
answered Nov 17, 2018 at 22:48
Here is a way: sudo install pygame
Rasberry pi has it ready-installed
answered Jul 4, 2020 at 12:39
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Install python 3.8 from python.org
Then install pygame (2.0) like this
pip install pygame==2.0.0.dev10
answered Aug 3, 2020 at 13:59
PythonProgrammiPythonProgrammi
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Make sure script path is registered in environment variables,
Make sure the python path is registered in environment variables,
also you dont have to enter entire url just write like this(windows only I dont use mac)
pip
pip install pygame
hope it work
answered Aug 26, 2021 at 12:15
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command to install pygame is:
pip install pygame
run it in command prompt
answered Feb 24, 2022 at 8:02
Try doing this for python3:
python3 -m pip install pygame==1.9.6
and this for python2:
python -m pip install pygame==1.9.6
answered Jun 28, 2020 at 15:49
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You don’t have to type in the entire url. Just simply go to command prompt (windows) or terminal (mac) and then type in:
[windows] pip install pygame
[mac] python -m install pygame
hopefully that works
answered Apr 25, 2021 at 6:18
To install pygame
with pip
, use the following commands in the Command Prompt
on Windows.
py -m pip download pygame
then…
py -m pip install pygame
You only have to do the download pygame
one if it doesn’t work when you use the install pygame
command by itself.
You type py -m
to show that it is using the module pip
, which can be accessed through the command prompt.
This is for Windows. For Mac OS, use python -m pip install pygame
answered Apr 1, 2021 at 10:27
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I know that there are already lot’s of answers, but if you want to download a specific version of pygame, you can use pip:
pip install pygame==1.9.6
Pygame 1.9.6 is the latest version at the time of writing.
answered Sep 12, 2021 at 1:19
theProCodertheProCoder
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Pygame tells you how to install it here, in my personal experience this is what I do on windows to install it, open up command prompt and type python -m pip install pygame
if that fails, check if you have more than one version of python installed if so you need to specify what version for example python3.5 -m pip install pygame
the reason we do this from command prompt is that in the Python shell it doesn’t understand what pip install is just to break it down a little python -m calls a python module in this case we want pip the next two arguments are what we want pip to do and what module/addon we want the action to be applied too
answered Oct 19, 2022 at 17:38
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First you have to run command prompt in administrator mode. To run in administrator mode:
- Type command prompt in Windows search bar.
- Right click on the command prompt option and click ‘Run as administrator’.
- Windows will ask you if you want to allow the app to make changes to your device. Click ‘Yes’.
- Command prompt will open in administrator mode.
Then type the following:
pip3 install pygame
answered Mar 21 at 9:48
DinuxDinux
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This is the only method that works for me.
pip install pygame==1.9.1release --allow-external pygame --allow-unverified pygame
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These are the steps that lead me to this command (I put them so people finds it easily):
$ pip install pygame
Collecting pygame
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pygame
Some externally hosted files were ignored as access to them may be unreliable (use --allow-external pygame to allow).
No distributions at all found for pygame
Then, as suggestes I allow external:
$ pip install pygame --allow-external pygame
Collecting pygame
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pygame
Some insecure and unverifiable files were ignored (use --allow-unverified pygame to allow).
No distributions at all found for pygame
So I also allow unverifiable:
$ pip install pygame --allow-external pygame --allow-unverified pygame
Collecting pygame
pygame is potentially insecure and unverifiable.
HTTP error 400 while getting http://www.pygame.org/../../ftp/pygame-1.6.2.tar.bz2 (from http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml)
Could not install requirement pygame because of error 400 Client Error: Bad Request
Could not install requirement pygame because of HTTP error 400 Client Error: Bad Request for URL http://www.pygame.org/../../ftp/pygame-1.6.2.tar.bz2 (from http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml)
So, after a visit to http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml, I thought about adding the version number (1.9.1release is the currently stable one).
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Hope it helps.
This article will tell you how to install the Python Pygame module correctly and how to fix the problems during the installation process.
1. Install Python Pygame Module Use The PIP Install Command.
- Open the terminal and run the command pip install pygame in it.
$ pip install pygame Collecting pygame Downloading pygame-2.1.2-cp37-cp37m-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl (8.9 MB) |████████████████████████████████| 8.9 MB 1.2 MB/s Installing collected packages: pygame Successfully installed pygame-2.1.2
- Run the command pip show pygame to verify the module installation.
$ pip show pygame Name: pygame Version: 2.1.2 Summary: Python Game Development Home-page: https://www.pygame.org Author: A community project. Author-email: [email protected] License: LGPL Location: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages Requires: Required-by:
2. Install Python Pygame Module Use The Binary Installer File.
- Besides using the pip install command, we can also install it using the downloaded binary installer file.
- Go to the Pygame GitHub website to download the Pygame installer file that matches your OS and Python versions.
- Open a terminal and go to the Pygame installer downloaded directory.
- Run the command python -m pip install –user pygame-2.1.2-cp37-cp37m-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl to install the Pygame from the installer file.
$ python -m pip install --user pygame-2.1.2-cp37-cp37m-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl Processing ./pygame-2.1.2-cp37-cp37m-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl Installing collected packages: pygame Successfully installed pygame-2.1.2
- Run the command python -m pygame –version to verify the installed Pygame moduel version.
$ python -m pygame --version pygame 2.1.2 (SDL 2.0.18, Python 3.7.3) Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/python: No module named pygame.__main__; 'pygame' is a package and cannot be directly executed
3. How To Fix The ImportError: No module named ‘pygame’.
3.1 Question.
- I installed pygame 1.9.2 in Windows, and my python version is 3.5. But when I import the pygame module in the python source code, it shows the error ImportError: No module named ‘pygame’. How can I fix this error?
>>> import pygame Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module> import pygame ImportError: No module named 'pygame'
3.2 Answer1.
- Below are the steps to install Pygame 1.9.2 on Python 3.5.1 for Windows, you can try it.
- After you successfully install Python 3.5, you should write down the Python 3.5 installed folder for later use.
- Download the wheel file pygame-1.9.2a0-cp35-none-win32.whl and save it to the folder python35/Scripts.
- Open a dos window and cd to the python35/Scripts folder, then run the below command.
pip3 install pygame-1.9.2a0-cp35-none-win32.whl
- If you can not run the above command successfully, you can run the below command instead.
python -m pip install pygame-1.9.2a0-cp35-none-win32.whl
- Now when you import the pygame module, the error should disappear.
3.3 Answer2.
- I also meet such an error, but the reason is different.
- I installed multiple Python versions on my Windows, and I installed pygame library successfully into one of my Python versions.
- But my IDE used python interpreter does not contain the pygame library, so when I import pygame in my IDE the error is shown.
- After I select the python interpreter that has installed pygame library, the error disappear.
- wish this can help you too.
3.4 Answer3.
- This error happened when you do not install pygame successfully.
- Or you may have multiple Python versions installed, and pygame is installed in one of the python versions, but you import pygame in another python version.
- So you should make sure the pygame library has been installed in your python env, you can run the below command to check it.
(MyPythonEnv) C:Userszhaosong>pip show pygame Name: pygame Version: 2.1.2 Summary: Python Game Development Home-page: https://www.pygame.org Author: A community project. Author-email: [email protected] License: LGPL Location: c:userszhaosonganaconda3envsmypythonenvlibsite-packages Requires: Required-by:
4. How To Fix ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:…EOFError: EOF when reading a line When Install Pygame Using PIP.
4.1 Question.
- I run the command pip install pygame on windows 10, but it throws the error with the message ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:…EOFError: EOF when reading a line. My python version is 3.9. Below is the detailed error message. How can I fix it?
Collecting pygame Using cached pygame-1.9.6.tar.gz (3.2 MB) ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: 'c:usersjerryappdatalocalprogramspythonpython39python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\Users\jerry\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-4b04m745\pygame\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\Users\jerry\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-4b04m745\pygame\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'rn'"'"', '"'"'n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base 'C:UsersjerryAppDataLocalTemppip-pip-egg-info-up4741kz' cwd: C:UsersjerryAppDataLocalTemppip-install-4b04m745pygame Complete output (17 lines): WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py" Using WINDOWS configuration... Download prebuilts to "prebuilt_downloads" and copy to "./prebuilt-x64"? [Y/n]Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "C:UsersjerryAppDataLocalTemppip-install-4b04m745pygamesetup.py", line 194, in <module> buildconfig.config.main(AUTO_CONFIG) File "C:UsersjerryAppDataLocalTemppip-install-4b04m745pygamebuildconfigconfig.py", line 210, in main deps = CFG.main(**kwds) File "C:UsersjerryAppDataLocalTemppip-install-4b04m745pygamebuildconfigconfig_win.py", line 576, in main and download_win_prebuilt.ask(**download_kwargs): File "C:UsersjerryAppDataLocalTemppip-install-4b04m745pygamebuildconfigdownload_win_prebuilt.py", line 302, in ask reply = raw_input( EOFError: EOF when reading a line ---------------------------------------- ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
4.2 Answer1.
- From the message you provide, we can see that you just install the Pygame version 1.9.6. And your python version is 3.9.
- But Pygame 1.9.6 does not support python 3.9 now. So you had better use python 3.8 instead.
- Or you can install Pygame 2.0 with the command pip install pygame==2.0.0, Pygame 2.0 support python 3.9.
- You can also download the Pygame wheel file from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame, it contains the wheel file pygame‑1.9.6‑cp39‑cp39‑win32.whl that meet your needs.
A common error you may encounter when using Python is modulenotfounderror: no module named ‘pygame’. This error occurs when Python cannot detect the pygame library in your current environment, and Pygame does not come with the default Python installation. This tutorial goes through the exact steps to troubleshoot this error for the Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
ModuleNotFoundError: no module named ‘pygame’
What is ModuleNotFoundError?
The ModuleNotFoundError occurs when the module you want to use is not present in your Python environment. There are several causes of the modulenotfounderror:
The module’s name is incorrect, in which case you have to check the name of the module you tried to import. Let’s try to import the re module with a double e to see what happens:
import ree
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ModuleNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last)
1 import ree
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ree'
To solve this error, ensure the module name is correct. Let’s look at the revised code:
import re
print(re.__version__)
2.2.1
You may want to import a local module file, but the module is not in the same directory. Let’s look at an example package with a script and a local module to import. Let’s look at the following steps to perform from your terminal:
mkdir example_package
cd example_package
mkdir folder_1
cd folder_1
vi module.py
Note that we use Vim to create the module.py file in this example. You can use your preferred file editor, such as Emacs or Atom. In module.py, we will import the re module and define a simple function that prints the re version:
import re
def print_re_version():
print(re.__version__)
Close the module.py, then complete the following commands from your terminal:
cd ../
vi script.py
Inside script.py, we will try to import the module we created.
import module
if __name__ == '__main__':
mod.print_re_version()
Let’s run python script.py from the terminal to see what happens:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "script.py", line 1, in <module>
import module
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'module'
To solve this error, we need to point to the correct path to module.py, which is inside folder_1. Let’s look at the revised code:
import folder_1.module as mod
if __name__ == '__main__':
mod.print_re_version()
When we run python script.py, we will get the following result:
2.2.1
Lastly, you can encounter the modulenotfounderror when you import a module that is not present in your Python environment.
What is pygame?
Pygame (stylized as pygame) is a set of Python modules for writing video games. It is highly portable and runs on every platform and operating system, and Pygame does not automatically come installed with Python. The simplest way to install pygame is to use the package manager for Python called pip. The following instructions to install pygame are for the major Python version 3.
How to install pygame on Windows Operating System
First, you need to download and install Python on your PC. Ensure you select the install launcher for all users and Add Python to PATH checkboxes. The latter ensures the interpreter is in the execution path. Pip is automatically on Windows for Python versions 2.7.9+ and 3.4+.
You can check your Python version with the following command:
python3 --version
You can install pip on Windows by downloading the installation package, opening the command line and launching the installer. You can install pip via the CMD prompt by running the following command.
python get-pip.py
You may need to run the command prompt as administrator. Check whether the installation has been successful by typing.
pip --version
To install pygame with pip, run the following command from the command prompt.
pip3 install pygame
How to install pygame on Mac Operating System
Open a terminal by pressing command (⌘) + Space Bar to open the Spotlight search. Type in terminal and press enter. To get pip, first ensure you have installed Python3. You can use the package manager Homebrew to do this. To install Homebrew, run the following command from your terminal:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Follow the steps and prompts before the installation starts, then insert the Homebrew directory at the top of your PATH environment variable. You can do this by adding the following line at the bottom of your ~/.profile file:
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin:$PATH"
Alternatively, if you have OS X 10.12 (Sierra) or older, use:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH
You can check that you have Python 3 installed on your system by running:
python3 --version
Python 3.8.8
Download pip by running the following curl command:
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
The curl command allows you to specify a direct download link, and using the -o option sets the name of the downloaded file.
Install pip by running:
python3 get-pip.py
From the terminal, use pip3 to install pygame:
pip3 install pygame
How to install pygame on Linux Operating System
All major Linux distributions have Python installed by default. However, you will need to install pip. You can install pip from the terminal, but the installation instructions depend on the Linux distribution you are using. You will need root privileges to install pip. Open a terminal and use the commands relevant to your Linux distribution to install pip.
Installing pip for Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint
sudo apt install python-pip3
Installing pip for CentOS 8 (and newer), Fedora, and Red Hat
sudo dnf install python-pip3
Installing pip for CentOS 6 and 7, and older versions of Red Hat
sudo yum install epel-release
sudo yum install python-pip3
Installing pip for Arch Linux and Manjaro
sudo pacman -S python-pip
Installing pip for OpenSUSE
sudo zypper python3-pip
Once you have installed pip, you can install pygame using:
pip3 install pygame
Check pygame Version
Once you have successfully installed pygame, you can use two methods to check the version of pygame. First, you can use pip show from your terminal.
pip show pygame
Name: pygame
Version: 2.1.2
Summary: Python Game Development
Second, within your python program, you can import pygame and then reference the __version__ attribute:
import pygame
print(pygame.__version__)
2.1.2
Installing pygame Using Anaconda
Anaconda is a distribution of Python and R for scientific computing and data science. You can install Anaconda by going to the installation instructions. Once you have installed Anaconda, you can install pygame using the following command:
conda install -c cogsci pygame
Summary
Congratulations on reading to the end of this tutorial. The modulenotfounderror occurs if you misspell the module name, incorrectly point to the module path or do not have the module installed in your Python environment. If you do not have the module installed in your Python environment, you can use pip to install the package. However, you must ensure you have pip installed on your system. You can also install Anaconda on your system and use the conda install command to install the pygame library.
For further reading on installing data science and machine learning libraries, you can go to the articles:
- OpenCV: How to Solve Python ModuleNotFoundError: no module named ‘cv2’
- Requests: How to Solve Python ModuleNotFoundError: no module named ‘requests’
- Pandas: How to Solve Python ModuleNotFoundError: no module named ‘pandas’
- Matplotlib: How to Solve Python ModuleNotFoundError: no module named ‘matplotlib’
- Flask: How to Solve Python ModuleNotFoundError: no module named ‘flask’
Go to the online courses page on Python to learn more about Python for data science and machine learning.
Have fun and happy researching!