I did have 32bit builds 'working' previously. I'm looking into how this works now, and why this was removed? It's a small number of people using 32 bit macs... but since I know of at least a few classrooms still using old 32bit macs which teach python and pygame I feel it's worth my effort.
best, On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Thomas Kluyver <tak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Irv for following up on this. > > As I understand things, we can only conveniently build pygame as a 64 bit > extension, but to make that installable on common Python installations, we > have to pretend it supports 32 bit operation as well (which it doesn't). We > thought this was unlikely to come up since all recent Macs are 64 bit; I > wasn't aware that there was a separate 32-bit only Python installer. > > We should definitely document this. Unfortunately I don't know of anything > else we can do about it. > > On 3 Jan 2017 1:48 a.m., "Irv Kalb" <i...@furrypants.com> wrote: > >> After days of experimentation, I finally have a working environment. >> >> Reading through a bunch of posts where other people had encountered a >> similar problem, I found one post that said to try installing a different >> version of Python: Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installe >> <https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.13/python-2.7.13-macosx10.6.pkg>r >> (I had been installing the 32-bit version: Mac OS X 32-bit i386/PPC >> installer >> <https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.13/python-2.7.13-macosx10.5.pkg>). >> >> After installing that version, I then used this command to install the >> latest version of pygame (1.9.2) (more recent the most recent one showing >> on the pygame install page): >> >> sudo pip install pygame >> >> The combination of those two installs allows me to run Python with pygame >> on Mac Sierra 10.12.2. >> >> This was extremely painful, and I would hope that this could be >> documented somewhere on the pygame installation page, so that someone with >> the same set up as me would not have to go through the same trial and error >> process. >> >> Irv >> >> On Dec 30, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Irv Kalb <i...@furrypants.com> wrote: >> >> To try to get pygame 1.9.2 installed easily (without any package >> managers), I tried doing the sudo install. >> >> The install soaked correctly: >> Collecting pygame >> Downloading pygame-1.9.2-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_9_intel.whl (4.8MB) >> 100% |████████████████████████████████| 4.8MB 125kB/s >> Installing collected packages: pygame >> Successfully installed pygame-1.9.2 >> IrvKalbs-MBP:~ irvkalb$ >> >> But when I tried a simple import of pygame in the shell, it still fails >> (with the exact same message I saw earlier): >> >> Python 2.7.13 (v2.7.13:a06454b1afa1, Dec 17 2016, 12:40:10) >> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)] on darwin >> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >> >>> import pygame >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<pyshell#0>", line 0, in <module> >> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/pytho >> n2.7/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py", line 133, in <module> >> from pygame.base import * >> ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib >> /python2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so, 2): Symbol not found: >> _SDL_EnableUNICODE >> Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.fra >> mework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so >> Expected in: flat namespace >> in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python >> 2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so >> >>> >> >> >> I am open to any other suggestions to get pygame running on Sierra with >> Python 2.7.13. >> >> This should be easy ... but it is extremely frustrating that I've spent a >> few days trying to get this environment set up. >> >> Irv >> >> >> >> On Dec 29, 2016, at 2:34 PM, Daniel Foerster <pydsig...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm thinking you should probably throw a sudo on the front of that (or >> whatever the Mac equivalent is). >> >> On 12/29/2016 04:15 PM, Irv Kalb wrote: >> >> >> On Dec 29, 2016, at 8:42 AM, Thomas Kluyver <tak...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 28 December 2016 at 23:41, Irv Kalb <i...@furrypants.com> wrote: >> >>> Also, when looking to find the latest version of pygame, on the pygame >>> downloads site, I see version 1.9.1. But if I go to PyPi at >>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pygame#downloads >>> >>> It shows version 1.9.2. But that shows a wheel file (.whl). >>> >>> Can anyone tell me if this is a more recent version that might fix the >>> problems that I am seeing? And if so, is there a simple way to install a >>> .whl file without going through a terminal prompt? >>> >> >> 1.9.2 is the latest; unfortunately so far no-one has been able to update >> the downloads page. >> >> The normal way to use wheels (.whl files) is to 'pip install pygame' at a >> command line. I don't know of a way to install them without using the >> terminal, and I don't know anything about building Mac GUI installers. >> Sorry! >> >> >> Thanks very much for your response. I cleared out my 1.9.1 version of >> pygame, and used pip. Here's what happened: >> >> IrvKalbs-MBP:~ irvkalb$ pip install pygame >> Collecting pygame >> Using cached pygame-1.9.2-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_9_intel.whl >> Installing collected packages: pygame >> Exception: >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/pytho >> n2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main >> status = self.run(options, args) >> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/pytho >> n2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run >> prefix=options.prefix_path, >> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/pytho >> n2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 784, in install >> **kwargs >> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/pytho >> n2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 851, in install >> self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root, prefix=prefix) >> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/pytho >> n2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 1064, in >> move_wheel_files >> isolated=self.isolated, >> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/pytho >> n2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 377, in move_wheel_files >> clobber(source, dest, False, fixer=fixer, filter=filter) >> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/pytho >> n2.7/site-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 329, in clobber >> os.utime(destfile, (st.st_atime, st.st_mtime)) >> OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/Library/Frameworks/Python.fr >> amework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7/pygame/bitmask.h' >> IrvKalbs-MBP:~ irvkalb$ >> >> However, that did leave me with a pygame folder and a >> pygame-1.9.2-dist-info folder in my site-packages folder. And when I try >> to do import it from the shell in IDLE, I get this: >> >> Python 2.7.13 (v2.7.13:a06454b1afa1, Dec 17 2016, 12:40:10) >> [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)] on darwin >> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >> >>> import pygame >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<pyshell#0>", line 0, in <module> >> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/pytho >> n2.7/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py", line 133, in <module> >> from pygame.base import * >> ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib >> /python2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so, 2): Symbol not found: >> _SDL_EnableUNICODE >> Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.fra >> mework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so >> Expected in: flat namespace >> in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python >> 2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so >> >>> >> >> Something looks very wrong. Any other suggestions for getting a stable >> Python/IDLE environment with pygame on Mac Sierra (10.12)? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Irv >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>