Installing Homebrew, Python, and Pygame on OS X

pygameinstall.md

1. Open the Terminal.
2. Install Homebrew.

• If you run into issues with OS X El Capitan, this will help.
• Enable the Xcode Command Line Tools, necessary for installing/compiling Homebrew: xcode-select –install
• Then install Homebrew itself: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

3. Install Python 2.7 with brew install python

• Optionally you can also install Python 3 with brew install python3
• Installing either of these with install pip and pip3 respectively, a package manager for Python.

4. Install prerequisites for pygame: brew install sdl sdl_image sdl_mixer sdl_ttf portmidi mercurial
5. Install pygame using pip with pip install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
6. Install numpy and matplotlib using pip install numpy matplotlib

Then you can run Python scripts from the Terminal with python filename.py.

Why use Homebrew? So when you install things you can easily remove and reinstall them if they break, remove them if they're misbehaving or you no longer need them, or update your packages whenever updates come out (you can do that with brew update then brew upgrade). It also makes installing all kinds of languages and things super easy.

I install all pygame follow all steps, but I got error like that

"python3.5/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py", line 105, in __getattr__
    raise NotImplementedError(MissingPygameModule)
NotImplementedError: movie module not available
(ImportError: No module named 'pygame.movie')"

AFAIK, pygame does not work well with python 3.

AFAIK, pygame does not work well with python 3.

This is completely false. I have been using and teaching pygame with Python 3 for years now.

Also, these steps are all no longer necessary. This used to be the preferred method for OS X, but a few months ago Pygame distribution was updated and now all you need to do for all platforms is:

pip install pygame

Thanks for the tips!

Thank you!

worked for me. I'm running MacOS with Sierra. Thanks!

It didn't work! Permission denied. I tried to install pygame but I failed.

Mac OS High Sierra

It worked for me: MacOS High Sierra, but it only installed for Python 2.7. How do I get it on Python 3.6.4? My Python3 is downloaded through Anaconda, if that's useful to know.

@bobbytoo2 Run the same commands, but with pip3 instead of pip, to install libraries for Python 3.

Can i install pygame without installing Xcode ? I am conscious that Xcode is a 6 GB file and i don’t programme in Xcode. I just need pygame but its failing to install without xcode —>

gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wsign-compare -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Ddarwin -D_THREAD_SAFE -DENABLE_NEWBUF=1 -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/SDL -I/usr/local/include/SDL -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/include/python3.6m -c src/imageext.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.6-intel-3.6/src/imageext.o
xcrun: error: active developer path (“/Users/sandeepkrishnan/Desktop/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer”) does not exist
Use sudo xcode-select –switch path/to/Xcode.app to specify the Xcode that you wish to use for command line developer tools, or use xcode-select –install to install the standalone command line developer tools.
See man xcode-select for more details.
error: command ‘gcc’ failed with exit status 1

Hey Gang,

i'm also on a journey to configure pygame

• if you follow this link HERE you will see examples.

• If you installed correctly you should be able to run this example code:
  python3 -m pygame.examples.aliens

thanks