Hmmm, I've just tested it on a Windows machine with the same result - looks like it might be an issue with the snaps library - I might try to contact Microsoft Press and see if they can assist - wish me luck :) Either you need to install GCC showhoe so pip can compile pygame. Go to the Pygame downloads page and download the mac installer. There are two ways to install it on mac: Method 1. import pygame If you do not get an error, you have correctly installed pygame on your linux system :) On macOS. Hmmm, I've just tested it on a Windows machine with the same result - looks like it might be an issue with the snaps library - I might try to contact Microsoft Press and see if they can assist - wish me luck :) sudo apt-get install python-pygame Note: This will install pygame for python2. (Jul-06-2020, 04:50 AM)ScottB Wrote: Hi, not sure of this is in the right place, so bear with me. When I run it, the window and the prompt is displayed but the keyboard input doesn't seem to be accepted and I have to force quit it. I am using Rob Miles book 'Begin to Code with Python' to learn Python and he has written a library called snaps that utilises pygame functions to manage windows - one of the examples displays a prompt in a gui based window on the screen and is supposed to accept keyboard input. The Pygame download sitepresently has packages for Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7 for OS X, but none for Python 3 (3.2 to be precise). I've trawled through web pages and blog posts that recommend all manner of ways in which you can install Pygame on a Mac for Python 3, I've tried numerous solutions on StackOverflow, and I've even tried angrily shouting at my computer and. Here is a quick tutorial on how to get Pygame up and running with Python 3 on a Mac with OS X 10.6. I can run python -m and it seems to work ok, I can move the cannon and shoot at the aliens. Trying to get all three to play nicely with each other has been impossible for me up to now. I have installed Python 3.8.3 on my Macbook Air running MacOS Catalina and installed pygame using pip3 install pygame -pre

Hi, not sure of this is in the right place, so bear with me.

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