Gentoo - pygame is available in the portage system (1.9.1 + 1.9.2prerelease) Fedora - Package repositories have support for pygame (1.9.1) Suse - The Yast package system has pygame (updated to 1.9.1) OLPC - comes with the XO, and sugar (1.9.1).
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New in Pygame 1.8.1: BLENDRGBA. blitters and blenders to go with the BLENDRGB. blend modes. Documentation updates (mainly for new sprite classes released in 1.8.0). I have Python 3.5.1 32-bits installed on Window and Pygame 1.9.2 Python 3.5 installed as well. But in case if i forget, is there a way to check the pygame version I have installed from either command line or Python IDLE. For Python, I use python -V. But for Pygame, I don't know how to. Answer: pip show pygame // command to check your pygame details.

What You Should Know Before You Begin

It might help if you know a bit about Python programming (or how to program in another language besides Python) before you read through this book; however even if you haven’t you can still read this book anyway. Programming isn’t nearly as hard as people think it is. If you ever run into some trouble, you can read the free book “Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python” online at http://inventwithpython.com or look up a topic that you find confusing on the Invent with Python wiki at http://inventwithpython.com/wiki.

You don’t need to know how to use the Pygame library before reading this book. The next chapter is a brief tutorial on all of Pygame’s major features and functions.

Just in case you haven’t read the first book and already installed Python and Pygame on your computer, the installation instructions are in this chapter. If you already have installed both of these then you can skip this chapter.

Downloading and Installing Python

Before we can begin programming you'll need to install software called the Python interpreter on your computer. (You may need to ask an adult for help here.) The interpreter is a program that understands the instructions that you’ll write (or rather, type out) in the Python language. Without the interpreter, your computer won't be able to run your Python programs. We'll just refer to “the Python interpreter” as “Python” from now on.

The Python interpreter software can be downloaded from the official website of the Python programming language, http://www.python.org. You might want the help of someone else to download and install the Python software. The installation is a little different depending on if your computer’s operating system is Windows, Mac OS X, or a Linux OS such as Ubuntu. You can also find videos online of people installing the Python software on their computers at http://invpy.com/installing.

Windows Instructions

When you get to http://python.org, you should see a list of links on the left (such as “About”, “News”, “Documentation”, “Download”, and so on). Click on the Download link to go to the download page, then look for the file called “Python 3.2 Windows Installer (Windows binary -- does not include source)” and click on its link to download Python for Windows.

Double-click on the python-3.2.msi file that you've just downloaded to start the Python installer. (If it doesn’t start, try right-clicking the file and choosing Install.) Once the installer starts up, just keep clicking the Next button and just accept the choices in the installer as you go (no need to make any changes). When the install is finished, click Finish.

Mac OS X Instructions

Mac OS X 10.5 comes with Python 2.5.1 pre-installed by Apple. Currently, Pygame only supports Python 2 and not Python 3. However, the programs in this book work with both Python 2 and 3.

The Python website also has some additional information about using Python on a Mac at http://docs.python.org/dev/using/mac.html.

Ubuntu and Linux Instructions

Pygame for Linux also only supports Python 2, not Python 3. If your operating system is Ubuntu, you can install Python by opening a terminal window (from the desktop click on Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and entering “sudo apt-get install python2.7” then pressing Enter. You will need to enter the root password to install Python, so ask the person who owns the computer to type in this password if you do not know it.

You also need to install the IDLE software. From the terminal, type in “sudo apt-get install idle”. The root password is also needed to install IDLE (ask the owner of your computer to type in this password for you).

Starting Python

We will be using the IDLE software to type in our programs and run them. IDLE stands for Interactive DeveLopment Environment. The development environment is software that makes it easy to write Python programs, just like word processor software makes it easy to write books.

If your operating system is Windows XP, you should be able to run Python by clicking the Start button, then selecting Programs, Python 3.1, IDLE (Python GUI). For Windows Vista or Windows 7, just click the Windows button in the lower left corner, type “IDLE” and select “IDLE (Python GUI)”.

If your operating system is Max OS X, start IDLE by opening the Finder window and click on Applications, then click Python 3.2, then click the IDLE icon.

If your operating system is Ubuntu or Linux, start IDLE by opening a terminal window and then type “idle3” and press Enter. You may also be able to click on Applications at the top of the screen, and then select Programming, then IDLE 3.

The window that appears when you first run IDLE is called the interactive shell. A shell is a program that lets you type instructions into the computer. The Python shell lets you type Python instructions, and the shell sends these instructions to the Python interpreter to perform.

Pygame does not come with Python. Like Python, Pygame is available for free. You will have to download and install Pygame, which is as easy as downloading and installing the Python interpreter. In a web browser, go to the URL http://pygame.org and click on the “Downloads” link on the left side of the web site. This book assumes you have the Windows operating system, but Pygame works the same for every operating system. You need to download the Pygame installer for your operating system and the version of Python you have installed.

You do not want to download the “source” for Pygame, but rather the Pygame “binary” for your operating system. For Windows, download the pygame-1.9.1.win32-py3.2.msi file. (This is Pygame for Python 3.2 on Windows. If you installed a different version of Python (such as 2.7 or 2.6) download the .msi file for your version of Python.) The current version of Pygame at the time this book was written is 1.9.1. If you see a newer version on the website, download and install the newer Pygame.

For Mac OS X, download the .zip or .dmg file for the version of Python you have and run it.

For Linux, open a terminal and run “sudo apt-get install python-pygame”.

On Windows, double click on the downloaded file to install Pygame. To check that Pygame is install correctly, type the following into the interactive shell:

>>> import pygame

If nothing appears after you hit the Enter key, then you know Pygame has successfully been installed. If the error ImportError: No module named pygame appears, then try to install Pygame again (and make sure you typed import pygame correctly).

This chapter has five small programs that demonstrate how to use the different features that Pygame provides. In the last chapter, you will use these features for a complete game written in Python with Pygame.

A video tutorial of how to install Pygame is available from this book's website at http://invpy.com/videos.

How to Use This Book

“Making Games with Python & Pygame” is different from other programming books because it focuses on the complete source code for several game programs. Instead of teaching you programming concepts and leaving it up to you to figure out how to make programs with those concepts, this book shows you some pr