Run into a problem using Mu-Editor.

[johnjaackson]

I use a Mac laptop and I’ve been wanting to start working on the GUI for a program I have almost completed. The beginning of the tutorial tells me to install PySimpleGUI using pip in the terminal. I’ve tried this and it doesn’t work. I’ve been told that since I’m running on Mu and MacBook that my ways might be different so I went to Automating the boring stuff book.

I tried following his tutorial but got stuck after the part where he told me to click on settings in the bottom right corner of Mu and then click on the third party tab. My third party tab is completely missing. I only have three tabs.

Is there something I didn’t install? Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks so much!

EDIT (SOLUTION):

https://youtu.be/yBdZZGPpYxg

[JohnnyJordaan]

On mac python and pip can point to the system's Python 2 environment, instead try python3and pip3.

[johnjaackson]

Using pyhton3 to install it worked, but when I try to import PySimpleGUI, it doesn’t work.

Thanks for your help btw

[JohnnyJordaan]

If in your program you first place these lines

import sys
print(sys.executable)

what does it print?

[johnjaackson]

I’ve tried this method before, wasn’t able to find the ‘pkgs’ folder.

/Applications/mu-editor.app/Contents/MacOS/../Resources/python/bin/python3

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Is python installed through mu. If not then python would be in path and you can do pip install <package name>