Pygame installation blocked by proxy server

[cheaptonersucks]

Hello

I have been asked to install Pygame by the head of computing. I have never installed Pygame previously so I looked online and it looked pretty straight forward. I entered the command pip install Pygame at the command prompt, as the tutorial advised but the installation failed. The error implied that the ‘tunnel connection failed: 407 Proxy Authorisation Required’. The installation obviously can’t authenticate with the school proxy server, but I do not know how to bypass this?

 

I did look if there are any MSI’s for Pygame and there is a downloads page on the Pygame site, but it’s not apparent as to which download that I require?

 

The version of Python installed in school is 3.7.4 if that’s any help?

 

Just wondered if anyone knows of a way of installing the correct version of Pygame for Python 3.7.4 without using the command line as I can’t bypass the proxy?

 

Thanks!

[Steve21]

Pip allows proxy as a parameter or at least did last time I tried it

 

Pip install —proxy http://blah.com:8080 Pygame etc

 

Note that’s two - above seems to format odd on phone

 

You can put a user:pass@ in front of blah if you need to, so might be worth trying it as an easy fix if that lets you

 

Steve

[mavhc]

https://www.pygame.org/download.shtml msi installer

[FragglePete]

I was banging my head against the wall with this one recently as well. The PIP installer called within Python kept giving me WRONG SSL errors, etc. Trying to put together a new Python package with 3.9.5 to include things like Pygame, GUIZero, Python Turtle, etc. I deployed the Python .MSI ok with various command lines, etc but PIP just refused to play ball afterwards. Fixed it in the end by calling the PIP.exe directly (ie. not within Python). Installed everything within the Site Libraries folder as required.

 

 

Pete

[mavhc]

Quite often cmd line tools, esp cross platform ones, don't use the OS's CA cert list, so any TLS inspecting certs you've installed aren't picked up. Also wpad/pac settings

[dhicks]

I have been asked to install Pygame by the head of computing.

 

Not a solutuon to your problem, but if it's any help Replit supports Pygame:

 

https://staging.replit.com/languages/pygame

 

A browser-based system for editing and running code, it might make for a less bothersome way of supporting Python programming - no local installs to manage, and children can potentially work from home on any web browser.

[mavhc]

Although if you've not taught them to install python at home, they're not going to be very good at actually using the skills they're learning

[dhicks]

Although if you've not taught them to install python at home, they're not going to be very good at actually using the skills they're learning

 

An excellent point, and one that many "low code" solutions seem to be missing - it's not neccesarily that people find programming difficult, it's the messing around with build environments / library installation / obtaining data files that makes for the barrier-to-entry for a lot of beginner programmers. You can teach someone a bit of Python (or whatever language you prefer) easily enough, and get them enthusiastic about applying it to some kind of real-world problem they want to solve, but they hit a point where they need to install a library or figure out how to get a CSV file from their desktop into their application and that's where a lot of people give up.

[robk]

Although if you've not taught them to install python at home, they're not going to be very good at actually using the skills they're learning

 

Having said that, it would be a good homework task maybe. Certainly improves network security if the "little hackers" are sandboxed off somewhere.

 

Given the remote learning lessons recently web available solutions look quite a good fit.

[supportman]

Not a solutuon to your problem, but if it's any help Replit supports Pygame:

 

https://staging.replit.com/languages/pygame

 

A browser-based system for editing and running code, it might make for a less bothersome way of supporting Python programming - no local installs to manage, and children can potentially work from home on any web browser.

 

We are just moving to this, its brilliant and certainly the future. Pygame works well apparently.

[cheaptonersucks]

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I will try offering replit.com initially, although I recall that the head of computing used to use this site some time ago. I don’t know why he stopped using it, but I will recommend it anyway. I don’t know why there isn’t a Python installer that has Pygame already packaged, although not having much knowledge of how add ons for Python work doesn’t help!

 

Does anyone know exactly which version of Pygame I require for Python 3.7 please?

[mavhc]

Hmm, seems that pygame 2 doesn't have msi, could download the .whl from https://github.com/pygame/pygame/releases/ and use pip install x:\path\to\pygame.whl

 

Latest version will be the best for python 3.7

[NotSoFast]

We are just moving to this, its brilliant and certainly the future. Pygame works well apparently.

I've tried it a few times and never had much luck. It's not something I'd want to rely on (Pygame in replit, not replit itself). Edited May 15, 2021 by NotSoFast

[supportman]

I've tried it a few times and never had much luck. It's not something I'd want to rely on (Pygame in replit, not replit itself).

 

I think there have been some recent updates to make it work, they even advertise it working now completely.