[Tutor] Pygame install help

Wayne Werner waynejwerner at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 17:27:25 CEST 2011


On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Chuck <duxchux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have familiarity with installing pygame? It seems simple and
> straight forward enough, then why do I get the following from IDLE? This is
> the 3.1 Windows pygame .msi install...
>
> Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Feb 20 2011, 21:29:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
> on win32
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
> >>> import pygame
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
>     import pygame
>   File "C:\Python32\lib\site-
> packages\pygame\__init__.py", line 95, in <module>
>     from pygame.base import *
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
> >>>
>

Pygame support for Python 3 is a bit spotty (AFAIK). It will probably be
easier using an earlier version of Python when working with Pygame.

HTH,
Wayne
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