I'm assuming you have Windows. If you have a 64-bit machine, download this file: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.2.3/python-3.2.3.amd64.msi
If you have a 32-bit machine, download this file: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.2.3/python-3.2.3.msi
If you don't know, go to Start > Control Panel > System, look at System type and it will say 64-bit or 32-bit.
Run this .msi file and jut click Next a whole bunch until it finishes. (All the defaults are fine.)
Then download this file for Pygame: http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.9.2a0.win32-py3.2.msi
Run this .msi file, all the default options are fine.
This should install Python and Pygame.
-Al
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Owen Rexian
<outrexian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not 100% sure what the problem is...
So you have downloaded the binary, opened it up, and then what?
On 4 October 2012 00:05, shane
<shanevanshane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi
totaly a newbie in every sense
was told to download 2.7 version but even when i go to instruction page i
get lost again please some help
i downloaded python-2.7.3 exe (15.5mb) what else do i need and where di i
get it because there is a heck of a lot of files that i dont know what they
mean or their purpose and it also talks of no scource code?????
*Windows Binary Installer*
This is probably the most popular method of installation. If you are running
on windows, it is highly recommended you use this form of installing. The
installers come with with nearly everything you need, and have an easy point
and click installers.
The first thing you will need is an installation of Python. Python binary
installers make it easy to get this done. Pygame binaries
usually come for
the latest 2 releases of Python, so you'll want to be fairly up to date.
Once that is in place, you want to download the appropriate windows binary.
From the pygame downloads page you can find the .EXE file you need. This
will automatically install all of pygame and all the SDL dependencies. The
windows binaries have filenames like this;
"http://www3.telus.net/len_l/pygame-1.8.0release.win32-py2.5.msi". This
would be the installer for pygame version 1.8.0, for Python version 2.5. You
shouldn't have trouble finding the correct binary from the "Windows" section
of the download page. http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml.
You will also probably want to install the windows documentation and
installation package. This will add easy links to the different
documentation and games that come with pygame. The installer for this is
found next to the other windows binary downloads. The filename looks
like
this; "pygame-docs-1.8.0.exe". And this would install the documentation and
examples for pygame-1.8.0
One other thing the windows binaries are missing is the Numeric or numpy
Python packages. You can easily install this separately and it will allow
you to use the pygame "surfarray" module. This module is optional, so there
is no need to do this. There are binary installers from the Numeric download
page. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369. A Numeric
for Windows python 2.5 can be found on the download page:
http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml.
Numpy is newer than Numeric, so you should probably use that... however both
are not entirely compatible. Instead of numpy you can also use PixelArray,
which is built into pygame
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