ImportError No module named pygame

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I have installed python 3 3 2 and pygame 1 9 2a0  Whenever I try to import pygame by typing   import pygame    I get following error message    Python 3 3 2  v3 3 2 d047928ae3f6  May 16 2013  00 03 43   MSC v 1600 32 bit  Intel   on win32 Type  copyright    credits  or  license    for more information   gt  gt  gt  import pygame Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt pyshell 0 gt    line 1  in  lt module gt      import pygame ImportError  No module named  pygame   gt  gt  gt     I went through some of the questions related to this error but none of the solution helped  I have 64 bit machine with Win7  OS

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I was getting the same error  It is because your version of Pygame is not compatible with your version of Python or Pydev  Go to this link and get the proper version of Pygame for your current version of Python  Ctrl F to find it faster or click on the word python in blue  up at the top  While you instal Pygame it should find the Python path by itself  At least mind did any ways  I run Pygame through Eclipse with Python 3 4   http   www lfd uci edu  gohlke pythonlibs

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The current PyGame release  1 9 6 doesn t support Python 3 9  I fyou don t want to wait for PyGame 2 0  you have to use Python 3 8  Alternatively  you can install a developer version by explicitly specifying the version  2 0 0 dev20 is the latest release at the time of writing   pip install pygame  2 0 0 dev20  or try to install a pre-release version by enabling the --pre option  pip install pygame --pre

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I was having the same trouble and I did  pip install pygame   and that worked for me

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I   m using the PyCharm IDE   I could get Pygame to work with IDLE but not with PyCharm  This video helped me install Pygame through PyCharm     https   youtu be HJ9bTO5yYw0   It seems that PyCharm only recognizes a package  if you use its GUI      However  there were a few slight differences for me  because I   m using Windows instead of a Mac     My    preferences    menu is found in   File- gt Settings     Then  in the next screen  I expanded my project menu  and clicked Project Interpreter   Then I clicked the green plus icon to the right to get to the Available Packages screen

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For this you have to install pygame package from the cmd  on Windows  or from terminal  on mac   Just type  pip install pygame  If it doesn t work for you  then try using this statement  pip3 install pygame   If it is still showing an error then you don t have pip installed on your device and try installing pip first

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Since no answer stated this   Make sure that  if you are using a virtual environment  you have activated it before trying to run the program   If you don t really know if you are using a virtual environment or not  check with the other contributors of the project  Or maybe try to find a file with the name activate like this  find   -name activate

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Here are instructions for users with the newer Python 3 5  Google brought me here  I suspect other 3 5 users might end up here as well    I just successfully installed Pygame 1 9 2a0-cp35 on Windows and it runs with Python 3 5 1     Install Python  and remember the install location  Go here and download pygame-1 9 2a0-cp35-none-win32 whl Move the downloaded  whl file to your python35 Scripts directory Open a command prompt in the Scripts directory  Shift-Right click in the directory   Open a command window here  Enter the command   pip3 install pygame-1 9 2a0-cp35-none-win32 whl If you get an error in the last step  try   python -m pip install pygame-1 9 2a0-cp35-none-win32 whl   And that should do it  Tested as working on Windows 10 64bit

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open the folder where your python is installed open scripts folder type cmd in the address bar  It opens a command prompt window in that location type pip install pygame and press enter it should download and install pygame module now run your code  It works fine  -

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I was trying to figure this out for at least an hour  And you re right the problem is that the installation files are all for 32 bit   Luckily I found a link to the 64 pygame download  Here it is  http   www lfd uci edu  gohlke pythonlibs  pygame   Just pick the corresponding version according to your python version and it should work like magic  The installation feature will bring you to a bright-blue screen as the installation  at this point you know that the installation is correct for you   Then go into the Python IDLE and type  import pygame  and you should not get any more errors    Props go to  yuvi who shared the link with StackOverflow

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Install and download pygame  whl file  Move  whl file to your python35 Scripts Go to cmd Change directory to python scripts Type   pip install pygame    Here is an example   C  Users user AppData Local Programs Python Python36-32 Scripts gt pip install pygame

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First execute python3 then type the command import pygame now you can see the output

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try this in your command prompt  python -m pip intsall pygame

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go to python scripts folder  open a command window to this path  type the following  C  python34 scripts gt  python -m pip install pygame  To test it  open python IDE and type import pygame  print  pygame ver   It worked for me

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I am a quite newbie to python and I was having same issue   windows x64 os   I have solved  doing below steps   I removed python  x64 version  and pygame I have downloaded and installed python 2 6 6 x86  https   www python org ftp python 2 6 6 python-2 6 6 msi I have downloaded and installed pygame  when installing  I have chosen the directory that I installed python   http   pygame org ftp pygame-1 9 1 win32-py2 6 msi Works well

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I ran into the error a few days ago  Thankfully  I found the answer    You see  the problem is that pygame comes in a  whl  wheel  file package  So  as a result  you have to pip install it    Pip installing is a very tricky process  so please be careful  The steps are -   Step1  Go to C  Python  whatever version you are using  Scripts  Scroll down  If you see a file named pip exe  then that means that you are in the right folder  Copy the path    Step2  In your computer  search for Environment Variables  You should see an option labeled  Edit the System Environment Variables   Click on it    Step3  There  you should see a dialogue box appear  Click  Environment Variables   Click on  Path   Then  click  New   Paste the path that you copies earlier    Step4  Click  Ok     Step5  Shift   Right Click wherever your pygame is installed  Select  Open Command Window Here  from the dropdown menu  Type in  pip install py  then click tab and the full file name should fill in  Then  press Enter  and you re ready to go  Now you shouldn t get the error again

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Resolved    Here is an example  C  Users user AppData Local Programs Python Python36-32 Scripts gt pip install pygame

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I had the same problem and discovered that Pygame doesn t work for Python3 at least on the Mac OS  but I also have Tython2 installed in my computer as you probably do too  so when I use Pygame  I switch the path so that it uses python2 instead of python3  I use Sublime Text as my text editor so I just go to  Tools   Build Systems   New Build System and enter the following          cmd      usr local bin python    -u     file            instead of          cmd      usr local bin python3    -u     file           in my case  And when I m not using pygame  I simply change the path back so that I can use Python3

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You don t need 64 bit Python on Win64 system  just install the 32bit versions of both Python and Pygame and they will work just fine  and there is a ton more modules for them anyways

[python] ImportError: No module named 'pygame'

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