Simple graphic library for beginners

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On 2018-01-11 23:11, bartc wrote:
> On 11/01/2018 22:32, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 9:21 AM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> 
>>> As I understand it, pygame is just another add-on, which doesn't inherently
>>> need to use .whl format, and which doesn't inherently need to use 'pip'
>>> package installer. I even saw somewhere that you needed to use 'pip install
>>> wheel' in order to use .whl.
>>>
>>> So there are two extraneous package systems to contend with, which
>>> themselves need to be the correct versions, before it can even start
>>> thinking about installing the product you really want.
> 
>> More FUD. Especially when you preface something with "I even saw
>> somewhere". No reference, and it's not something from official
>> documentation.
> 
> Why, you don't believe me? It was here:
> http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml, the last comment under 1.9.3.
> 
I think the "wheel" might just be a placeholder for the name of the 
wheel itself.

Anyway, it's available on PyPI as a wheel, so you can use pip.

To install on Python 3.6 from PyPI, it's:

py -3.6 -m pip pygame

from the command line.

>    You're citing a potentially-outdated third-party
>> document, and ignoring context (like "you need to 'pip install wheel'
>> to take advantage of wheel caching" which is not nearly as bad as
>> you're implying).
> 
> What have pip and wheels got to do with pygame? Nothing.
> 
They are a way to install it.

>> You said yourself that when you used Python 3.6 (the latest stable
>> release, at time of writing), everything just worked. Why are you
>> still complaining?
> 
> I like exploring complexity, and the gratuitous use of it.
> 
> The subject is a Simple graphic library, for a language which is widely
> regarded (erroneously IMO) as also being simple.
>