Trying to Download PygameZero

[Mats Wichmann]

On 10/10/20 12:22 AM, Tom Hedge via Python-list wrote:
> I am in a 8 grade coding class at the moment and my teacher asked me to download a script called pgzero. I can not seem to download pgzer or pygame when i try it shoots me a error message:  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:     command: 'c:\program files\python39\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\thedg\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-g9sb_mr0\\pygame\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\thedg\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-g9sb_mr0\\pygame\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base 'C:\Users\thedg\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-pip-egg-info-rre7x6r3'         cwd: C:\Users\thedg\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-g9sb_mr0\pygame\    Complete output (17 lines):
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>     WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"    Using WINDOWS configuration...
> 
>     Download prebuilts to "prebuilt_downloads" and copy to "./prebuilt-x64"? [Y/n]Traceback (most recent call last):      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>      File "C:\Users\thedg\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-g9sb_mr0\pygame\setup.py", line 194, in <module>        buildconfig.config.main(AUTO_CONFIG)      File "C:\Users\thedg\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-g9sb_mr0\pygame\buildconfig\config.py", line 210, in main        deps = CFG.main(**kwds)      File "C:\Users\thedg\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-g9sb_mr0\pygame\buildconfig\config_win.py", line 576, in main        and download_win_prebuilt.ask(**download_kwargs):      File "C:\Users\thedg\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-g9sb_mr0\pygame\buildconfig\download_win_prebuilt.py", line 302, in ask        reply = raw_input(    EOFError: EOF when reading a line    ----------------------------------------ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
> 
> Please let me know ASAP how to fix this. Ive spent countless hours trying to fix this, ive tried my changing my Path becasue thats what everyone told me. I have also tried some other means to fix this and non have been sucsussful.
> Please Help me,
> 

The problem is the pygame developers have not released a pygame for
Python 3.9 and you're using Python 3.9.

You can check the availability here:

https://pypi.org/project/pygame/#files

Easiest answer is to stick with Python 3.8.6 for now.

Slightly longer:  all those daunting error messages are because pip
didn't find a wheel file matching your python version / operating system
/ architecture, and thus wants to instead download the source
distribution and build it (that's the pygame\\setup.py). And that fails,
as it normally does for Windows users.