On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 5:33 AM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > On 11/01/2018 15:23, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:38 AM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > > >>> Although I can't run it because 'pygame' is not available. I think >>> installing this library is likely to be a bigger obstacle than >>> programming >>> any graphics! >>> >>> (If I try and download it as a ready-built library for Windows, it has a >>> range of .msi files, none of which is a match for my Python. The newest >>> is >>> for win32 Py3.2; I need win64 Py3.6. While building from source involves >>> running MSVC 2008 .... urghh) >> >> >> https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame >> >> Go. Fetch. Stop fudding. > > > And you know this link, how? Because googling for 'download pygame', it > doesn't appear on the first page (or in any of the next half dozen).
I Googled 'pygame windows', 'pygame windows binary', and a few others like that, and it appeared on the first page every time - usually within the top four - and other hits often included Stack Overflow questions that link to it, as well. A bit of basic research will also tell you that this is a link worth saving. > But clicking on it, the most promising link seems to have 'cp36' and > 'amd64'; I assume the 36 means 3.6. > > OK, but what the hell do I do with a .whl file? Google tells me I install it > something like this: pip install file.whl. > > Except my Python 3.6 doesn't have pip. There is a however a copy in my > Python 3.4. But that gives me the message: Why doesn't it? Recent Pythons should include pip by default. > "pygame-1.9.3-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this > platform." > > Maybe I need the 3.4? Download that (which is a bit of pig getting it from > my browser's download directory, to anywhere else on my file system). But > same error. > > Maybe it's the AMD64 bit, as my processor is Intel. (But is is really that > critical??) I try the win32 version - same error. > > Perhaps I'm overthinking it, maybe this will work: > > pip install pygame > > and it will do whatever it needs to do to locate and download whatever > version it knows is needed. Yes, as Ned told you. Actually, this should be so blatantly obvious that I fell into the trap of assuming you'd already tried it. Mea culpa. > Well, that seemed to do something, and it didn't need me to download any > .whl files. But then I noticed a bunch of errors culminating with: > > "Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in > C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\pip_build_user\pygame" If you've broken your pip in some way, we won't be able to help you debug it with just this. Figure out why your Python 3.6 doesn't have a working pip, because that IS the normal and obvious thing to do. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
