Re: [pygame] Mac Newbie - Help!

[Chris Scott <kaffeen@mac.com>]

Hmmm... I figured I'd start fresh, so I downloaded the .sit file from
pygame.org, unstuffed it, stuck it in the Python folder, added the folder to
the Prefs, and tried to do:

>>> from pygame import *

which gives me this error

"ImportError: No module named base"

If I just do this:

>>> import pygame
>>> dir(pygame)

I don't get most of the modules, only ['__builtins__', '__doc__',
'__file__', '__name__', '__path__', 'ver', 'version'].

On the pygame site it says that the .sit file is for the Mac OS but when it
unstuffs, most of the files have .carbon.slb appended to them (e.g.
base.carbon.slb). SO, I guess my next question is, where can I get versions
of the modules that are not carbonized? This whole thing is making my
noggin' hurt...

Any further help (or aspirin) would be much appreciated:) Thanks.

 
on 10/30/01 11:17 AM, Pete Shinners at shredwheat@mediaone.net wrote:

> Chris Scott wrote:
> 
>> Trying to get started with pygame on a Mac G4, but I can't seem to beat the
>> errors. I'm having problems with the pygame.font module - it doesn't seem to
>> recognize any of my true type fonts. I've tried bluebold and arial, both
>> throw errors that they are not defined. When I manage to get the thing to
>> run, it winds up throwing an errors that it's not configured to run threads?
>> This is all on the chimp tutorial!
> 
> heh, ok, i'll try to help out here. but we're gonna need the big help
> from our other mac users. unfortunately i haven't seen much from bob
> lately (who created the original prebuilt libraries).
> 
> first, i'm assuming this is MacOS (not OSX) and you installed from the
> prebuilt SIT file on the pygame page? using macpython 2.0?
> 
> i did just install pygame on my brother's powerbook, and i don't believe
> we had any big problems. do the other examples run? one i do remembered
> running good was the "liquid" example.
> 
> as for the threading error. none of the pygame examples require
> threading. on MacOS (classic) python does not have support for threads,
> so unfortunately SolarWolf will not run on macos. all the other pygame
> games and examples should run ok.
> 
> anyways, hopefully with a little more information, someone who knows
> their way around the macos block can tip in a little advice?
> 
> 
> now if i can turn this around and ask my own befuddled macos question...
> when i installed pygame on my brothers laptop, all the .PY files were
> associated with simpletext. i couldn't figure out a way to make them
> automatically run with the actual python interpreter. so running each
> example involved dragging the .PY file onto the python interpreter icon.
> not the biggest problem, but that python interpreter is buried a little
> deep, so quickly launching any python script is a bit of work. i assume
> there's an easy solution, but it didn't show itself to me :-/  help?
> 
> 
> 
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