> On Dec 29, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Thomas Kluyver <tak...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 28 December 2016 at 23:41, Irv Kalb <i...@furrypants.com > <mailto:i...@furrypants.com>> wrote: > Also, when looking to find the latest version of pygame, on the pygame > downloads site, I see version 1.9.1. But if I go to PyPi at > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygame#downloads > <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygame#downloads> > > It shows version 1.9.2. But that shows a wheel file (.whl). > > Can anyone tell me if this is a more recent version that might fix the > problems that I am seeing? And if so, is there a simple way to install a > .whl file without going through a terminal prompt? > > 1.9.2 is the latest; unfortunately so far no-one has been able to update the > downloads page. > > The normal way to use wheels (.whl files) is to 'pip install pygame' at a > command line. I don't know of a way to install them without using the > terminal, and I don't know anything about building Mac GUI installers. Sorry!
Thanks very much for your response. I cleared out my 1.9.1 version of pygame, and used pip. Here's what happened: IrvKalbs-MBP:~ irvkalb$ pip install pygame Collecting pygame Using cached pygame-1.9.2-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_9_intel.whl Installing collected packages: pygame Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run prefix=options.prefix_path, File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install **kwargs File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in move_wheel_files isolated=self.isolated, File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 377, in move_wheel_files clobber(source, dest, False, fixer=fixer, filter=filter) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 329, in clobber os.utime(destfile, (st.st_atime, st.st_mtime)) OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7/pygame/bitmask.h' IrvKalbs-MBP:~ irvkalb$ However, that did leave me with a pygame folder and a pygame-1.9.2-dist-info folder in my site-packages folder. And when I try to do import it from the shell in IDLE, I get this: Python 2.7.13 (v2.7.13:a06454b1afa1, Dec 17 2016, 12:40:10) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)] on darwin Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> import pygame Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#0>", line 0, in <module> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py", line 133, in <module> from pygame.base import * ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so, 2): Symbol not found: _SDL_EnableUNICODE Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so Expected in: flat namespace in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so >>> Something looks very wrong. Any other suggestions for getting a stable Python/IDLE environment with pygame on Mac Sierra (10.12)? Thanks, Irv