[Python-modules-team] pygame and python 3

[Lenard Lindstrom]

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?
>