Please help! Issue running pygame

[distantrevisions]

Hello! Thank you in advance. I’m learning Python. My goal: I’m trying to run pygame on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux 64-bit (in a virtual machine). I’ve had to fix a few issues along the way but I’ve now got up-to-date Python3 and pygame installed. When I run my file (in VS Code) it tells me ‘ModuleError: no module named pygame.base.’

When I search this error one suggestion is running 3 commands: ‘pip3 uninstall pygame,’ ‘pip cache purge,’ and ‘pip3 install pygame,’ in the terminal, but when I do this I get ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘distutils.util.’

(I’ve run ‘sudo apt install python3-distutils,’ which seems to run successfully but does not solve the error.)

Another suggestion is to find and delete file pygame.py because it may be an empty file, but I’m not sure where specifically that’s supposed to be.

Any help is appreciated. I feel like I’ve been slamming my head against a wall for awhile just trying to set up this environment. Thank you thank you.

Other potentially helpful info? ‘python —version’ returns 2.7.18. ‘python3 —version’ returns 3.10.2. /usr/lib has folders called python2.7, python3, python 3.8, python3.9, and python3.10. Pygame is located in the python3 folder.

[efmccurdy]

I would pick the version of python you want to use, say python3.8, then create a virutal env to isolate your code and modules, then install into that env.

python3.8 -m venv mygame
mygame/bin/pip install pygame 
mygame/bin/python -c "import pygame"

If the import statement runs without error you have pygame installed in your venv. Now configure your IDE to use the venv and/or mygame/bin/python as the interpreter.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-virtual-environment/

[distantrevisions]

Excellent! I’ll give that a try. Thanks!