Re: [pygame] Installing Python 3 and pygame

2017-05-19 Thread Irv Kalb
Yes, the: py -m pygame.examples.aliens brought up the game demo. Thanks, Irv > On May 18, 2017, at 1:53 AM, René Dudfield wrote: > > Hi, > > instructions in Windows section of GettingStarted should be updated to use > py. https://www.pygame.org/wiki/GettingStarted >

Re: [pygame] Installing Python 3 and pygame

2017-05-17 Thread Irv Kalb
Thank you for the very quick update! This will certainly be helpful to people who are trying to install pygame. Irv > On May 17, 2017, at 1:23 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > > On 17 May 2017 at 20:57, Irv Kalb > wrote: > But

Re: [pygame] Installing Python 3 and pygame

2017-05-17 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 17 May 2017 at 20:57, Irv Kalb wrote: > But I would strongly suggest to whoever in is charge of that part of the > pygame site, that they change the instructions to simply be: > > pip install pygame > > or > > pip3 install pygame > > It would have saved me a lot of time.

Re: [pygame] Installing Python 3 and pygame

2017-05-17 Thread Irv Kalb
Ian, Thank you for your very clear and helpful answers. I did de-install the 32-bit version of Python, and re-installed the 64 bit version. After that, installing pygame went smoothly. I don't want to bother getting the python3 command working - it's just not important to me. But I would

Re: [pygame] Installing Python 3 and pygame

2017-05-16 Thread DiliupG
Even I have come across this kind of situation many times. Windos evolved from DOS to wht it is today so that people will NOT HAVE TO TYPE command line instructions for getting things done. Even Linux has gone in this direction to get a larger user base. If yanyone needs to leave the DOS commands

Re: [pygame] Installing Python 3 and pygame

2017-05-16 Thread Ian Mallett
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Irv Kalb wrote: > 1) What does the error message associated with the: "python3 -m pip > install pygame -- user " mean? > ​Exactly what it says. It's not recognized as a program. This means that it can't find "python3.exe", "python3.bat",

[pygame] Installing Python 3 and pygame

2017-05-16 Thread Irv Kalb
One of the colleges where I teach has made a decision to move from Python 2 to Python 3. To help the admin's, I was asked to give detailed instructions on how to install Python 3 and pygame. The school has mostly Windows machines, so I thought I would try that out first. I have to admit that