

Use the "setup.py" script to start the installation. Pygame also comes with some scripts to automatically configure the flags needed to build pygame. This is compiled for your system as it installs, similar to BSD, Ĭompiling and installing pygame is handled by Python's distutils. See the FreeBSD package page for more information. While techinicaly it isn't binary, it is automatically built and installed by the ports manager. There is documentation with python for the " windows installation steps"įreeBSD also has an active pygame package. This means that python, and pip will work for you from the command line. Make sure you install python with the "Add python to PATH" option selected. This comes with pygame already installed on the default raspbian installation. If pygame starts compiling from source and fails, first try upgrading pip. If pip doesn't find a wheel for your platform, it will try to compile pygame from source (see below). Wheels are available for x86 and 圆4 architectures on Linux and Windows, and for 圆4 and arm64 on Mac. If not, please read some alternative installation methods, and extra details below. Hopefully the installation instructions above worked for you. Mu has a “Mode” button which can be used to write Python, MicroPython and CircuitPython.If it works, you are ready to go! If not there are more detailed, platform-specific instructions further down the page. Mu has one feature that elevates it above other beginner editors. If you are starting out with Python, Mu is an excellent choice to introduce the language. Modules are libraries of code that can be used to add new features, for example RPi.GPIO and GPIO Zero are modules that enable Python to talk to the Raspberry Pi GPIO. This is where the ease of Mu works against it, as there is no means to install Python modules.

The default is to write Python 3 code, to be run on our machine. It can output the results of our code and it can be used to access the REPL. A builtin checker and tidy application will check and format your code using Python style guidelines.

We can zoom in and out of the code, useful when presenting to large groups. A plotter can be used to visualize data via a graph. The Python Shell (REPL, Read, Eval, Print, Loop) is available to test ideas. Large icons and clear text identify the function of each button.
