On 2019-11-02 01:55, originallmo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 1:05:35 AM UTC-4, MRAB wrote:
On 2019-11-01 03:47, originallmo...@gmail.com wrote:
> It's been years since I've done anything with Python, and it wasn't a
language I was terribly familiar with even then. I'm using Python 3.8 on my
Windows 7 laptop. Python itself works so far as I can tell. I can get it to import
pip without problems, but, when I try to get going with pygame, I hit a roadblock.
>
> I have pygame 1.9.6.tar.gz. Apparently, I don't have the means of unzipping it, yet, I think I've seen things on other forums suggesting that Python can do that for me. Is that true?
>
Actually, you do have the means: Python!
But there's a simpler way.
> I've been trying to use "pip install" (Written just like that, minus the
quotes, of course), yet, it tells me that's a syntax error.
>
> Is there a way of inputting this that I'm not aware of? I've seen various versions of people calling the command, with things like "pip.install" or "-m pip install -U pygame -user" or something like that, are THOSE what I should be trying or...am I completely off-base right now?
>
Those commands are for the Windows command prompt.
> Any help would be appreciated, as I'm losing patience with it at the moment.
>
Go to Christoph Gohlke's site at:
https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame
Download one of these "wheel" files:
pygame‑1.9.6‑cp38‑cp38‑win_amd64.whl for 64-bit
or:
pygame‑1.9.6‑cp38‑cp38‑win32.whl for 32-bit
At the Windows command prompt type:
py -3.8 -m pip install "path/to/wheel"
Does it matter where I place pygame? I was going to put it into my Scripts
folder, as I'm pretty sure I already have a path that goes there.
It'll be installed into Python's site-packages folder.
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