🔒 Just installed pygame on vscode

[candid garden]

But when i try to import it, its says no module named "pygame" even though i just installed it?

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[candid garden]

But when i run the exact code in thonny it works fine?

[left scaffold]

Run pip install pygame and see what it does

Open a vscode terminal and run pip install pygame

If this doesn't work make a venv

Vscode can automate this

[candid garden]

it says its already "satisfied"

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Can I see the code?

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I mean i dont rlly have much but yeah, i have to send pic tho cus i havent got discord on laptop yet

when i run it

when i try to install again

[ornate lichen]

Do py -m pip install pygame

[ornate lichen]

And then run py main.py

And as JebK says, its best if you have this managed inside a virtualenv

!virtualenv

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Virtual environments

Virtual environments are isolated Python environments, which make it easier to keep your system clean and manage dependencies. By default, when activated, only libraries and scripts installed in the virtual environment are accessible, preventing cross-project dependency conflicts, and allowing easy isolation of requirements.

To create a new virtual environment, you can use the standard library venv module: python3 -m venv .venv (replace python3 with python or py on Windows)

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[candid garden]

thanks this worked

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