unable to import pygame

Question

I have installed pygames on my mac, using the installer in the following package found on the pygame.org site: pygame-1.9.1release-python.org-32bit-py2.7-macosx10.3.dmg.

I have installed python with the Python 2.7.2 Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit x86-64/i386 Installer found on python.org, and ran easy_install pyobjc so that I now have pyobjc 2.2 installed.

But when I try the to import pygame in the repl, I get this:

>>> import pygame
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py", line 95, in <module>
    from pygame.base import *
ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so, 2): no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so: no matching architecture in universal wrapper

Answer 1

I admit this is a guess, but could this be a 32 vs. 64 bit issue?

If I do:

file /usr/bin/python

I get:

python: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
python (for architecture x86_64):   Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
python (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386

Wondering what you see on your add-in file?

For example, if it's 32 bit, then run Python that mode:

arch -i386 /usr/bin/python

If that's not exactly it, at least this will hopefully get you in the right direction.

Answer 2

This was a 32 bit vs 64 bit issue for me. I followed the directions listed here: http://web.mit.edu/6.090/www/pygame.html and the issue was resolved.