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abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:39 AM

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I've been racking my head trying to figure out why pip isn't working (need it for pytest and pygame)

Python states that pip is not defined
HELP! (I'm a beginner to programming and this is for my university)

civic frigateBOT Oct 15, 2025, 2:39 AM

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abstract iron I've been racking my head trying to figure out why pip isn't working (need it fo...

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supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:39 AM

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What command exactly are you running?

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:39 AM

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pip install pygame

supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:39 AM

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And on what OS are you? (Windows I assume?)

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:40 AM

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supple granite And on what OS are you? (Windows I assume?)

win11^^

supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:40 AM

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Try: py -m pip install pygame

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:40 AM

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File "<python-input-4>", line 1
py -m pip install pygame
^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:40 AM

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You're in the REPL

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Not in a terminal

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:41 AM

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Ah

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I thought i had to run the command on the Python app

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I did just get an error though

supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:42 AM

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abstract iron I thought i had to run the command on the Python app

No. The REPL is just a dumb line-by-line Python code interpreter. It "can't do" system commands

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:42 AM

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supple granite No. The REPL is just a dumb line-by-line Python code interpreter. It "can't do" ...

Got it o7

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:43 AM

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abstract iron I did just get an error though

should i send every line for this?

it states note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:43 AM

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What command did you run exactly?

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:43 AM

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supple granite Try: `py -m pip install pygame`

this^^

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simply copy pasted it

supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:44 AM

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Let me try it out myself

supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:45 AM

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abstract iron this^^

This is the output I get:

(.venv) PS C:\Users\samur\PycharmProjects\PythonProject1> py -m pip install pygame
Collecting pygame
  Obtaining dependency information for pygame from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7e/11/17f7f319ca91824b86557e9303e3b7a71991ef17fd45286bf47d7f0a38e6/pygame-2.6.1-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata
  Downloading pygame-2.6.1-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl.metadata (13 kB)
Downloading pygame-2.6.1-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl (10.6 MB)
   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10.6/10.6 MB 25.5 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: pygame
Successfully installed pygame-2.6.1

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 23.2.1 -> 25.2
[notice] To update, run: python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
(.venv) PS C:\Users\samur\PycharmProjects\PythonProject1>

What did you get?

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:46 AM

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a massive mess of lines, not at all what you get

supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:46 AM

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a little more precise please?

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:46 AM

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📎 message.txt

civic frigateBOT Oct 15, 2025, 2:46 AM

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abstract iron

Click here to see this code in our pastebin.

supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:48 AM

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abstract iron

You did start/activate your venv, didn't you?

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:48 AM

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I have no idea what that is o_o

We just started covering python and I was meaning to install it now

supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:48 AM

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What IDE are you using?

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:49 AM

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I downloaded vscode but all we've done so far is porting over things from Pyret to Python, not at all began messing with venv

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I really wish i could specify more

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Should i install venv?

supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:54 AM

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abstract iron I downloaded vscode but all we've done so far is porting over things from Pyret ...

Hmm. I think the by far easiest way for you would be to go with PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/. It's a very powerful IDE and - at least I'd assume it - the status quo for Python development. The advantage for you as a beginner is that it takes care of all those venv (virtual environment) related things, as well as actually running the code.

If you insist on using VS Code there's a series of commands you'll need:
These steps you'll need to do once per project:

cd into your project's directory
py -m venv .venv to create the virtual environment for this project in a folder .venv (. is a prefix for hidden files)
These steps you need to repeat every time you open the project:
.\.venv\Scripts\activate
py -m pip installs as required

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:56 AM

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I'll download PyCharm then, how would I go around with pytest and pygame?

supple granite Oct 15, 2025, 2:57 AM

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abstract iron I'll download PyCharm then, how would I go around with pytest and pygame?

You write the import statement, hover over it, and click the install button. Doesn't get much simpler than that:

abstract iron Oct 15, 2025, 2:57 AM

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got it! thanks!

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