Python + PyGame Install

The following are instructions for a Windows Computer to:

1. Install Python
2. Install PyGame
3. Run a PyGame Example

Note: After should see the following space game

Note also that for Linux the following website has instructions

• http://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompileUbuntu

Install Python

• Download Python 3.4.2 from https://www.python.org/downloads/
  
• Run the installer(python-3.4.2.msi) and follow the on screen instructions
• Press Run Button on the “Open File – Security Question” Dialog for “Do you want to run this file?” question
  
• Press Next button on the “Python 3.4.2 Setup” Dialog for “Select whether …” question
  
• Press Next button on the “Python 3.4.2 Setup” Dialog for “Select Destination Directory” question
  
• Press Next button on the “Python 3.4.2 Setup” Dialog for “Customize Python 3.4.2” question
  
• Press Yes for “User Account Control” Dialog
• Press Finished button on the “Python 3.4.2 Setup” Dialog for “Complete the Python 3.4.2 Installer” question
  

Install PyGame

• Download PyGame from pygame-1.9.2a0-cp34-none-win32.whl (Now on a Dropbox as link keeps breaking)
• Copy the file pygame-1.9.2a0-cp34-none-win32.whl to the directory C:\python3.4\Scripts
• Open a Command Window in the directory C:\python3.4\Scripts
• In windows Explorer Press Shift Key and the Right button on the mouse
• Select “Open command window here”
  
• In the Command Window type “pip3 install pygame-1.9.2a0-cp34-none-win32.whl”
  

Run a PyGame Example

• Using the Windows Start Button, Select “All Programs” and Find the IDLE Python GUI
  
• Double click “IDLE (Python 3.4 GUI – 32 bit)”,  the following screen will appear
  
•  Type in the following command, to check that PyGame is correctly installed:

import pygame

• Type in the following commands to run an example game, to check that PyGame is working

import pygame.examples.aliens as game
game.main()