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 -- View this message in context: http://pygame-users.25799.n6.nabble.com/newbie-who-is-lost-asking-for-rescue-party-tp209.html Sent from the pygame-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
