Installing pygame

[jacob Kruger]

I literally just installed pyGame under 3.5.1, using following .whl file 
that pulled off a site offering collections of .whl files:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

And, according to following page, the command of pi3p install 
...followed by name of .whl file... handled installing pyGame under 3.5.1:
https://skellykiernan.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/python-pygame-install/

That was after copying the .whl file into the./scripts directory under 
python 3.5.1 installation path.

HTH

Jacob Kruger
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On 2016-01-21 12:10 PM, John Mycroft wrote:
> Hi!
> I have now spent several hours trying to install Pygame with Python 
> 3.5.  I have installed from a msi file "successfully" but "import 
> pygame" fails either because Python can't find pygame or because "%1  
> is not a valid .DLL".  I have followed the instructions at 
> https://www.webucator.com/blog/2015/03/installing-the-windows-64-bit-version-of-pygame/ 
> to install from a wheel which works just fine until I get to
> ***************
> C:\Python>c:\python\scripts\pip install pygame-1.9.2a0-cp35-none-win32
> c:\python\lib\site-packages\pip\pep425tags.py:89: RuntimeWarning: 
> Config variable 'Py_DEBUG' is unset, Python ABI tag may be incorrect
>   warn=(impl == 'cp')):
> c:\python\lib\site-packages\pip\pep425tags.py:93: RuntimeWarning: 
> Config variable 'WITH_PYMALLOC' is unset, Python ABI tag may be incorrect
>   warn=(impl == 'cp')):
> Collecting pygame-1.9.2a0-cp35-none-win32
>   Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement 
> pygame-1.9.2a0-cp35-none-win32 (from versions: )
> No matching distribution found for pygame-1.9.2a0-cp35-none-win32
> ******************
> which tells me nothing.
>
>
> Please, someone - how do I install pygame?  It appears to be installed 
> on my PC - maybe I have it in the wrong folder?  When I download the 
> install packages, I copy them into my c:\Python folder (where my 
> Python lives) and install from there so I would think they'd get 
> installed in the right place.
>
> Many thanks - John Mycroft