How to install Pygame on Python 3.4?
Question:
So I have this little problem. When I try to install Pygame for Python 3.4 I download a .whl (wheel?) file and don’t know how to use it. Some guys told me something about pip but don’t know how to use/install it.
Answers:
14 y/o? Good for you! You can put the file into your python/scripts folder and run pip install *file* (where *file* is your filename).
Here is a great VIDEO tutorial: http://goo.gl/PurJqk (it is on youtube)
This is what I use to install .whl modules to python (I do this in the 64 bit windows cmd):
cd "C:Users(YOUR USERNAME)Desktop"
(assuming that you have the .whl file on your desktop)
C:Python34Scriptspip install filename.whl
(where filename.whl is the full name of the .whl file, with the .whl extension)
After that it will install, and you are free to use PyGame!
Here is a link to download pygame for different versions of Python, up to Python 3.4 in 32 bit and 64 bit.
To test if it installed properly, open your python shell and type in this code:
import pygame
Please note that these are not official binaries and you are basically trusting a third-party to compile and provide the binary for you.
https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/downloads
“pygame-1.9.2a0-hg_5974ff8dae3c+.win32-py3.4.msi”
This is the package you want, RedNax said this but did not point out the exact package.
The other answer doesn’t work for me on Windows 10 Pro N x64.
What did work was installing the win32.whl instead of amd64. I put this in my Python3.4Scripts folder where pip is and ran
pip install pygame-1.9.2a0-cp34-none-win32.whl
This should work for others using a similar configuration.
In my experience, you need to make sure of two things:
1) Both Python and Pygame should be 32 bit – not either or both being 64 bit.
2) Both Python and Pygame should be compatible for the same version.
You may be able to get the 64 bit version to work, but not all packages have migrated to 64 bit and the small performance improvement isn’t worth the frustration of trying to get it to work.
I also found the latest 32 bit Pygame (as of Feb. 5th, 2016) seems to work well with 32 bit Python 3.4.4.
I installed 32 bit python-3.4.4.msi on Windows 10 from my downloads folder to the folder C:Python34.
Within the Python34 folder, I created a folder called “Project Directory”.
In it, I placed “pygame-1.9.2a0-hg_ea3b3bb8714a.win32-py3.4.msi” which I think I got from https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/downloads. Double-clicked on it. Worked the first time.
I had also installed “Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 with Update 1.”
No idea if this helped solve the problem, but this MVSC package installs a lot of DLLs. It takes quite a while to get MVSC installed.
But – I now have Pygame working on Windows 10.
For linux if you root user then copy paste this into terminal
apt-get install python3-dev mercurial
apt-get install libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev
apt-get install libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libportmidi-dev
apt-get install python-numpy
pip3 install --user hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
If you not root user then use sudo before start every-line.
Step 1
If you have not got python version 3.4.2, then you must uninstall your current version of python (or don’t if you don’t even have python).
Step 2
Then download and install python 3.4.2 from http://filehippo.com/download_python/58901/ .
Step 3
Follow the instructions and wait until it is ready for use.
Step 4
Now download the ‘pygame-1.9.2a0-cp34-none-win32.whl’ file from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame and copy it into C:Python34Scripts .
Step 5
In C:Python34Scripts hold the shift key and right click. Click on ‘Open new command window here’.
Step 6
In the command window you have opened, type in:
pip3 install pygame-1.9.2a0-cp34-none-win32.whl
It will say something like:
Unpacking C:Python34Scriptspygame-1.9.2a0-cp34-none-win32.whl
Installing collected packages: pygame
Successfully installed pygame
Cleaning up...
And it will then just say C:Python34Scripts>, which means that pygame has now been installed!
Step 7
Go to the Python 3.4.2 Shell, and type in:
import pygame
-
if there is an error, pygame didn’t install properly, otherwise, congratulations!
You can then:
import pygame.examples.aliens as game
-
and then on the next line type in:
game.main()
-
to see a professional pygame example.
For more information, visit my website at:
https://ronaldobutrus.github.io/Site3/index.html
Good Luck! 🙂
So I have this little problem. When I try to install Pygame for Python 3.4 I download a .whl (wheel?) file and don’t know how to use it. Some guys told me something about pip but don’t know how to use/install it.
14 y/o? Good for you! You can put the file into your python/scripts folder and run pip install *file* (where *file* is your filename).
Here is a great VIDEO tutorial: http://goo.gl/PurJqk (it is on youtube)
This is what I use to install .whl modules to python (I do this in the 64 bit windows cmd):
cd "C:Users(YOUR USERNAME)Desktop"
(assuming that you have the .whl file on your desktop)
C:Python34Scriptspip install filename.whl
(where filename.whl is the full name of the .whl file, with the .whl extension)
After that it will install, and you are free to use PyGame!
Here is a link to download pygame for different versions of Python, up to Python 3.4 in 32 bit and 64 bit.
To test if it installed properly, open your python shell and type in this code:
import pygame
Please note that these are not official binaries and you are basically trusting a third-party to compile and provide the binary for you.
https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/downloads
“pygame-1.9.2a0-hg_5974ff8dae3c+.win32-py3.4.msi”
This is the package you want, RedNax said this but did not point out the exact package.
The other answer doesn’t work for me on Windows 10 Pro N x64.
What did work was installing the win32.whl instead of amd64. I put this in my Python3.4Scripts folder where pip is and ran
pip install pygame-1.9.2a0-cp34-none-win32.whl
This should work for others using a similar configuration.
In my experience, you need to make sure of two things:
1) Both Python and Pygame should be 32 bit – not either or both being 64 bit.
2) Both Python and Pygame should be compatible for the same version.
You may be able to get the 64 bit version to work, but not all packages have migrated to 64 bit and the small performance improvement isn’t worth the frustration of trying to get it to work.
I also found the latest 32 bit Pygame (as of Feb. 5th, 2016) seems to work well with 32 bit Python 3.4.4.
I installed 32 bit python-3.4.4.msi on Windows 10 from my downloads folder to the folder C:Python34.
Within the Python34 folder, I created a folder called “Project Directory”.
In it, I placed “pygame-1.9.2a0-hg_ea3b3bb8714a.win32-py3.4.msi” which I think I got from https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/downloads. Double-clicked on it. Worked the first time.
I had also installed “Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 with Update 1.”
No idea if this helped solve the problem, but this MVSC package installs a lot of DLLs. It takes quite a while to get MVSC installed.
But – I now have Pygame working on Windows 10.
For linux if you root user then copy paste this into terminal
apt-get install python3-dev mercurial
apt-get install libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev
apt-get install libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libportmidi-dev
apt-get install python-numpy
pip3 install --user hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
If you not root user then use sudo before start every-line.
Step 1
If you have not got python version 3.4.2, then you must uninstall your current version of python (or don’t if you don’t even have python).
Step 2
Then download and install python 3.4.2 from http://filehippo.com/download_python/58901/ .
Step 3
Follow the instructions and wait until it is ready for use.
Step 4
Now download the ‘pygame-1.9.2a0-cp34-none-win32.whl’ file from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame and copy it into C:Python34Scripts .
Step 5
In C:Python34Scripts hold the shift key and right click. Click on ‘Open new command window here’.
Step 6
In the command window you have opened, type in:
pip3 install pygame-1.9.2a0-cp34-none-win32.whl
It will say something like:
Unpacking C:Python34Scriptspygame-1.9.2a0-cp34-none-win32.whl
Installing collected packages: pygame
Successfully installed pygame
Cleaning up...
And it will then just say C:Python34Scripts>, which means that pygame has now been installed!
Step 7
Go to the Python 3.4.2 Shell, and type in:
import pygame
-
if there is an error, pygame didn’t install properly, otherwise, congratulations!
You can then:import pygame.examples.aliens as game
-
and then on the next line type in:
game.main()
-
to see a professional pygame example.
For more information, visit my website at:
https://ronaldobutrus.github.io/Site3/index.html
Good Luck! 🙂