On 2019-11-01 03:47, originallmo...@gmail.com wrote:
It's been years since I've done anything with Python, and it wasn't a language
I was terribly familiar with even then. I'm using Python 3.8 on my Windows 7
laptop. Python itself works so far as I can tell. I can get it to import pip
without problems, but, when I try to get going with pygame, I hit a roadblock.
I have pygame 1.9.6.tar.gz. Apparently, I don't have the means of unzipping it,
yet, I think I've seen things on other forums suggesting that Python can do
that for me. Is that true?
Actually, you do have the means: Python!
But there's a simpler way.
I've been trying to use "pip install" (Written just like that, minus the
quotes, of course), yet, it tells me that's a syntax error.
Is there a way of inputting this that I'm not aware of? I've seen various versions of people
calling the command, with things like "pip.install" or "-m pip install -U pygame
-user" or something like that, are THOSE what I should be trying or...am I completely off-base
right now?
Those commands are for the Windows command prompt.
Any help would be appreciated, as I'm losing patience with it at the moment.
Go to Christoph Gohlke's site at:
https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame
Download one of these "wheel" files:
pygame‑1.9.6‑cp38‑cp38‑win_amd64.whl for 64-bit
or:
pygame‑1.9.6‑cp38‑cp38‑win32.whl for 32-bit
At the Windows command prompt type:
py -3.8 -m pip install "path/to/wheel"
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