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Re: [pygame] problem importing pygame in Windows





On 10/28/2010 9:21 PM, Zachary Uram wrote:
I'm running python 2.6 with pygame for 2.6 on windows 7, when i try to
import pygame i get an error, i had no problems installing python and
pygame and I can't find a solution on google so I would really
appreciate any help in resolving this. I also tried installing
different versions of python and pygame and had same error.
Here is the error:

Python 2.6 (r26:66721, Oct  2 2008, 11:06:43) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win
32
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import pygame
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in<module>
   File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\pygame\__init__.py", line 95, in<module>
     from pygame.base import *
ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
exit()

Zach

Looks like you are trying to run a 32 bit version of pygame on a 64 bit version of Python. That does not work. Either switch to a 32 bit version of Python or use an unofficial 64 bit build of pygame from <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame>. Also consider updating to Python version 2.6.6, which contains many bug fixes.

Christoph