On 1/11/2018 2:51 PM, bartc wrote:
I downloaded Python 3.7. It didn't work. I uninstalled and reinstalled
it, this time with the 'set environment variables' option (to allow
'pip' to be typed from anywhere).
The recommended way to run pip and similar python code is
<python> -m pip install xyz
where <python> invokes a specific python binary on the particular
machine. For example, on Windows 10 with amd64 binaries installed.
C:\Users\Terry>py -3.6 -m pip install pygame
Collecting pygame
Downloading pygame-1.9.3-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl (4.2MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 4.2MB 267kB/s
Installing collected packages: pygame
Successfully installed pygame-1.9.3
Notice the name of the .whl file!!!
It still didn't work. I hid all the other Pythons. Same thing.
The following is the transcript.
c:\python37>pip install pygame
Collecting pygame
Using cached pygame-1.9.3.tar.gz
I believe that this is a compressed source archive that requires a C
compiler for any C files. Mainly intended for *nix, not Windows. Pip
should only try it after failing to find the proper .whl. Since pygame
wraps a C library, but expects Windows users to use a specific .whl, I
would not expect the .tar.gz to work on Windows even if you had the
required Microsoft C++ compiler.
The pygame people have not yet put a 3.7 windows .whl file on PyPI.
There *is* a 3.7 pygame .whl
pygame‑1.9.3‑cp37‑cp37m‑win_amd64.whl
with Windows binaries at the site previously recommended in this thread:
https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
It can be downloaded manually and installed with a variant pip command,
as explained at the top of the page. (C. Gohlke does us a great service
by providing test binaries while a version is still in development.)
> What is this "Setup" file of which it speaks?
A file with info needed to compile C files and then install everything.
Terry Jan Reedy
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