On 12/5/20 11:41 AM, Barry Fitzgerald via Python-list wrote: > Good day," > > I purchased a book for my son and followed the directions to a T. > (Coding Games in Python) Whenever I got to the point of of moving the > "hello" file over to pgzrun is where my trouble began. Its not > finding a path because I'm getting this "pgzrun is not recognized as > an internal or external command". > > I've uninstall reinstall and tried to trouble shoot offline. I' > believe its a "path" issue but that is a little over my head. At > least this is what I've read. Yes I selected all users and the > variables options on custom install. Looks to me like you have to do two things to get PyGame Zero going on Windows. First, install the latest stable Python 3 from python.org. Be sure to tell the installer to put Python in the system path so you can get to it from the command prompt.
Second, from a command prompt, run: py -m pip install pgzero And then you must put the location pgzrun.exe in your path. See below. For example this is what you'd see: C:\Users\torriem>py -m pip install pgzero Collecting pgzero Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/48/e5/e5f14292373cb5fc7539aa01307b184c1e3c954d68945d8c44778669dd82/pgzero-1.2-py3-none-any.whl Collecting numpy (from pgzero) Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/40/db/5060f18b0116f00ee73f8365efc9c95bd5496946290b0e7c97b6ee89dffe/numpy-1.19.4-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl Collecting pygame<2.0,>=1.9.2 (from pgzero) Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a8/1e/5da797179ce046decc7d6d57a9b1977218103ccfb099b959b7736aff5f73/pygame-1.9.6-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl Installing collected packages: numpy, pygame, pgzero WARNING: The script f2py.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\torriem\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts' which is not on PATH. Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location. WARNING: The script pgzrun.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\torriem\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts' which is not on PATH. Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location. Successfully installed numpy-1.19.4 pgzero-1.2 pygame-1.9.6 WARNING: You are using pip version 19.2.3, however version 20.3.1 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command. Note the WARNINGs about the scripts and path. You'll want to take that directory (which will be different on your machine) and add that to the path. See https://www.architectryan.com/2018/03/17/add-to-the-path-on-windows-10/ for an example of how to do that. In my case, the path I need to add is C:\Users\torriem\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts After that, pgzrun should run as the book says it will. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
