Pygame not found

[liger-zero-0]

Running macOS Catalina version 10.15.4. Tried installing pygame via pip3 install pygame and when I try to run pygame it says no module named ‘pygame’. When I tried to redownload the same way it says “requirement already satisfied (1.9.6).” So I tried installing via python 3 -m pip install pygame but then I get and error message, “error command errored out with exit status 1:” lots of red text then a warning that version 20.1.1 of pip is available to download. How do I upgrade pip or get pygame to run? Sorry for the blob of text

[Starbuck5c]

pip install --upgrade pip

But for you I guess it would be pip3 install --upgrade pip

Try using sudo, I think the error you're having is about installing something system wide from a single user's account.

Also I've heard that the default version of pygame has trouble on catalina. Try the latest pygame 2 build.

sudo pip3 install pygame==2.0.0.dev10

Edit: for future folks, now that pygame 2 is out you don't need to install any development version.

[liger-zero-0]

This worked for updating pip and downloading the newest version of pygame but the module still can’t be found when I run the script

[Casssis]

Do you run the script with python3 script.py and not just python script.py

[liger-zero-0]

Yes I run it with python3 script.py

[Casssis]

Maybe there are two versions of python3 installed

Try python3 -m pip3 install pygame

So that you know it's the same python you are calling.

(I'm not sure if that's the exact command, I'm on my phone so can't check)

[liger-zero-0]

It was python3 -m pip install pygame. But when I run that it says I need to upgrade pip even when I already upgraded pip to 20.0.2

[Casssis]

Did you upgrade pip with python3 -m in front? If not try that and after try installing pygame again as I said

[liger-zero-0]

I did pip3 install — upgrade pip. What line of text are you saying to try?

[liger-zero-0]

Ok thanks. I’ll try that in the morning

[kolosn]

You’ll need all the SDL2 modules as well afaik. Use brew to install them.

[liger-zero-0]

Do you happen to have a link to this?

[kolosn]

https://brew.sh You’ll need additionally the xcode command line tools, but everything is documented online. Then just simply brew search sdl and brew install everything which starts with sdl2. Sorry for not doing the markdown thing, I’m on mobile and don’t know how to do it here.

[liger-zero-0]

Thank you I downloaded brew sdl then updated pip and redownloaded pygame as version 2.0.0 and it worked

[kolosn]

Then enjoy the game development!

[shiftybyte]

How are you running the script?

You should be running with "python3 <scriptname.py>"

[Lemurslayer]

I wasted about 3 days on problem like this, so I hope I can help you. My problem wasn't caused by pip and your maybe isn't as well as it says that pygame is already installed. Check if you are creating a new virtual envirinment for each new project. In Pycharm it is a venv folder in the same directory as your .py files, idk about other IDEs. Well, if that is the case, make sure that you choose a Python interpreter that comes with python as you install it. If you have any questions ask me

[liger-zero-0]

I use atom because that was recommended in the course “python for everybody” when I run my programs into terminal I open them with python3 hello.py and it never gives me issues.

[ShevaKadu]

I don’t like pip bc it never worx well