Re: pygame and python 3
Hi,
Pygame supported python3 since before version 1.9.0 in 2009. All Pygame
code is written to work with either Python 2.x or 3.x. So building
Pygame for python3 is the same as for python2. Just use "python3
setup.py build" instead of "python setup.py build". Installation is also
the same. For Pygame 1.9.2, which I
test against Python 2.7 and 3.4 on i386 Linux Mint, python3 support is
complete.
So if a stable Pygame package already exists for python2, adapting it
for python3 should be straight forward. Let me know if some Pygame bug
causes problems and I will deal with it promptly.
Thanks for the effort in keeping Pygame in Linux.
Lenard Lindstrom
Pygame developer
On 15-04-16 06:47 PM, peter green wrote:
One python package used heavilly in the raspberry pi community is
pygame. Unfortunately the package hasn't had an upstream stable
release since 2009 and the upstream stable release doesn't support
python3.
Currently sid has the latest upstream stable release and no
python3-pygame package. Experimental does have a python3-pygame
package but I have not tested it (i'm not really a python guy myself).
Thoughts? has anyone tried the pythong3-pygame package in
experimental? should it be pushed to unstable (after jessie release)?
are there better alternatives to pygame?
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