2to3 translation problem

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 12/12/15 17:09, Laura Creighton wrote:
> In a message of Sat, 12 Dec 2015 17:59:52 +0100, Peter Otten writes:
>> Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/12/15 15:09, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>> On 12/12/2015 14:42, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>>>>> Debian Jessie, python 2.7; python 3.4
>>>>>
>>>>> I have an application, using pygame for graphics, that works fine under
>>>>> python2.7. I have run it through 2to3, but when running the result under
>>>>> python 3.4, I get the error :
>>>>>
>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>>     File "ppm304.py", line 9, in <module>
>>>>>       import pygame
>>>>> ImportError: No module named 'pygame'
>>>>>
>>>>> So, python 3.4 can't find the library, whilst python 2.7 can.
>>>>> How do I track down/fix the missing dependency.
>>>>
>>>> This isn't a 2to3 translation problem.  You've installed pygame under
>>>> 2.7 at some point, repeat the process for 3.4.  I've no idea how you'd
>>>> do that on Debian Jessie but on Windows it'd be "pip3.4 install pygame".
>>>>
>>> Thanks, Mark, for the pointer. I'm pretty sure I installed Pygame from
>>> Debian's repository, via apt-get install python-pygame. I believe that
>>> should be effective for any version of Python.
>>
>> No, that is the version for Python 2. If there is a Python 3 version it will
>> be called
>>
>> python3-pygame
>>
>> but no such package seems to be available:
>>
>> https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=jessie&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=python3-pygame
>
> There is one in unstable, I forgot to check for jessie, sorry about that.
>
> Laura
>
Thanks, Laura, and others who have replied. You're right; 
python-3-pygame exists in unstable, but has not yet made it to jessie, 
even in backports.

So, I'll stick with python 2.7 for the time being; really no hardship :)