Re: [pygame] pygame for portable python

[René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah cool.

I think it will give me a good push to finish off more tests as we change towards py3k.

The sprite module is missing tests for a lot of the older sprite functionality.  So that's the major one of the .py files I think.  Our build scripts, and tests are the other major .py files.

If we start back porting some of the pgreloaded py3k stuff, then I think we can have a pygame 1.9 prerelease for py3k within 4 weeks time(in time for the course).  Remember, it only took Marcus a few days to port pgreloaded.


cheers,

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would agree that Python 2.6 is more appropriate at the moment. Jython, for instance, is still at 2.5 beta. And many games depend on pyopengl at the minimum. As for releasing a Python 3.0 version of Pygame, that could be a problem if two versions of the .py modules must be kept. Since one goal for Pygame 1.9 is to have extensive unit tests ready, and therefore completing a major bug hunt in Pygame, it would be best to wait until after that is done. But yes, we can start readying Pygame for Python 3 by backporting pgreloaded's cross-compatibility tools.

Lenard

René Dudfield wrote:

Hi,

python 3.0 is *not* so good to teach.  Most of the available tutorials, and books use 2.x.  Most of the available code uses 2.x

Major modules like numpy, pyopengl, and 5000+ other modules are not ready for python3 yet.

It's just not ready yet (even the python developers say that).


However, when are you teaching it?  We might be able to get a python3 release of pygame ready in time.


cheers,

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Andre Krause <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

   dear list, i need pygame for

   www.portablepython.com <http://www.portablepython.com>

   i need it for teaching programming to total beginners. i choose
   python 3.0.1
   version of portable python, because it avoids some problems that
   would confuse
   programming beginners ( for example the integer division problem)

   later in the course i introduce pygame and let them program a very
   simple
   breakout like game and a baloon pop game.

   question: is pygame already compatible with python 3.0.1 ?


   i tried installing the binary release:

   "pygame-1.8.1.win32-py2.6.msi ~  1.4M (python2.5.4 is the best
   python on windows
   at the moment)"

   would it help if i would try a svn - nightly build version ?


   currently, i get the error message:


   "Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<string>", line 248, in run_nodebug
    File "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\herc\Eigene
   Dateien\module1.py", line 2,
   in <module>
      from pygame import *
    File
   "c:\PortablePython3\App\lib\site-packages\pygame\__init__.py", line 70
      raise NotImplementedError, MissingPygameModule
                               ^
   SyntaxError: invalid syntax"


   kind regards and thanks in advance !

--
Lenard Lindstrom
<len-l@xxxxxxxxx>