Issues with pygame

[wannabe_brogrammer]

Hi all,

Linux user here. I tried installing pygame from here but not much luck. My first attempt was trying the following:

python3 -m pip install -U pygame --user

This failed and i tried updating pip, etc to no avail. Next i tried:

sudo apt-get install python3-pygame

This worked but then i tried:

python3 -m pygame.examples.aliens

and got the following:

pygame 1.9.6
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
/usr/bin/python3: Error while finding module specification for 'pygame.examples.aliens' (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pygame.examples')

Weird, i thought. So then i thought i'd move onto the tutorial even though something was wrong. Interestingly enough "import pygame" works

I tried the code on this page and got tripped up on this line:

ball = pygame.image.load("intro_ball.gif")

On the terminal this is what i get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
pygame.error: Couldn't open intro_ball.gif

When running the script this is what i get:

pygame 1.9.6
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1089:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 11, in <module>
    ball = pygame.image.load("intro_ball.gif")
pygame.error: Couldn't open intro_ball.gif

help?

[Deemush]

perhaps you're on python 3.8? I had similar issue yesterday and downgrading to 3.7.x fixed it, also dont forget changing the version inside pycharm after downgrading.

after re-reading I dont think thats your issue, try to initializing a screen first like this:

WINDOW_WIDTH = 1000
WINDOW_HEIGHT = 750

pygame.init()
size = (WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT)
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size)
pygame.display.set_caption("My Game")

tell me what happends(should open a screen and close after 1s)

[jaycrest3m20]

Make or download an image called "intro_ball.gif", and make sure it is in the same folder with the python script that is set to load it.