using OpenGL on windows 11

[Kirill Ratkin]

Hi!

Your machine remembers but you probably use different virtual envs.

PyCharm, as I remember, creates its own venv (per project maybe).

It's better to remove python interpreter installed from MS application 
market and download python installer from python.org.

Install it as user or system. If you install python as user the 
interpreter files and standard libs will be in your profile 
(%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\...)

Then add path to python.exe to system or user PATH environment variable 
(using Windows GUI or thru CMD (command setx)).

(as I remember installer can do this task for you)

Now you have python interpreter installed and visible from command line 
(btw it's better to install visual studio build tools as well).

Open CMD or PowerShell and try command 'python'. If it works - Ok.

Then create virtual environment somewhere (for example in your home 
profile (%USERPROFILE%)): python -m venv venv

The directory C:\Users\<YourName>\venv appears.

 From CMD or PowerShell do: venv\Scripts\activate

You see command prompt changed and python virtual environment activated.

Now you can install any python stuff using pip. All new packages will be 
in 'venv\Lib\site-packages' but not in standard Lib folder.

Start PyCharm, select recently created venv (unfortunately I can't help 
you with menu path of python interpreter settings inside PyCharm because 
don't use it now).

But as for me VS Code is better. Try it. :)


// BR (KR)

31.12.2021 2:23, vrg bls пишет:
>    Hi! I am very new to Python admittedly, but did try several options
> regarding troubleshooting to get OpenGL to run with Python. I am using
> PyCharm as my interface, did try installing setup tools and have
> reinstalled using pip install function a few times. I did notice my machine
> seems to be having trouble remembering that I did install python and keeps
> prompting me to install from MS app store. I did try to do this but again
> did not register the installation of Python. I am able to open a window in
> PyCharm and get other functions to work but then get the Module not
> Installed error for OpenGL. I even tried the setuptools install and
> easy_install never popped up as an option. is this a windows 11 issue? does
> anything about this sound familiar?
> Thank you, and sorry if this has already been answered in a forum
> somewhere, I did look and could not find it
>
>