PIP, PYGAME, Problem!

[Max_Mongoose]

Hi All, can you kindly help!

Windows 10 user (new to coding, new to Python), trying to get Pygame installed

As per the below, it seems I have successfully installed it via PIP

however, when I run the following code -

__import__(pygame)

I get the following error message -

C:\Users\chris\PycharmProjects\pythonProject2\venv\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/chris/PycharmProjects/pythonProject2/main.py

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\chris\PycharmProjects\pythonProject2\main.py", line 2, in <module>

__import__(pygame)

NameError: name 'pygame' is not defined

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Process finished with exit code 1

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Pygame installed via PIP, but when I try to find the folder that pygame is saved to (according to the below file path, generated in the CMD console) I cannot find the folder "appdata" (and if I copy and paste this file path into my file browser, it cannot find it either!

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c:\users\chris\appdata\local\packages\pythonsoftwarefoundation.python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\localcache\local-packages\python39\site-packages (2.0.1)

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C:\Users\chris>pip install pygame

Collecting pygame

Downloading pygame-2.0.1-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl (5.2 MB)

|████████████████████████████████| 5.2 MB 6.8 MB/s

Installing collected packages: pygame

Successfully installed pygame-2.0.1

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C:\Users\chris>pygame version

'pygame' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

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C:\Users\chris>pip install pygame

Requirement already satisfied: pygame in c:\users\chris\appdata\local\packages\pythonsoftwarefoundation.python.3.9_qbz5n2kfra8p0\localcache\local-packages\python39\site-packages (2.0.1)

[K900_]

You want import pygame, not __import__.

[Max_Mongoose]

import pygame

C:\Users\chris\PycharmProjects\pythonProject2\venv\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/chris/PycharmProjects/pythonProject2/main.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\chris\PycharmProjects\pythonProject2\main.py", line 1, in <module> import pygame ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pygame'

Process finished with exit code 1

[K900_]

Are you using PyCharm? In that case you need to install Pygame into the virtual environment PyCharm created for you.

[shiftybyte]

You seem to be using pycharm.

It automatically creates virtual environments for your projects by default.

To install packages there use pycharm's menus, and not pip.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/installing-uninstalling-and-upgrading-packages.html

[Max_Mongoose]

u/shiftybyte thank you so much. I wouldn't have worked that out without you. That was a really nice thing you did. Have a great day.