not initializing: only a black pygame

[fredguth]

Hi,
I did clone, pip install pygame and python3 main.py.
A black square opens a window with the pygame icon. It seems to be loading something, but eventually does not show anything.
I wonder if it is a problem with the version of pygame, I am using latest pygame (1.9.5) . Any idea on why this is not loading?

Thanks

[mdeyo]

@fredguth Quick response: Check out the forked project from issue #2 with your version of pygame. I hope to have time later this week to look into why my project isn't working with it.

[fredguth]

The fork did not work as well (tryied in different machine, ubuntu).

[mdeyo]

Is your pip install pygame for python3?

Another way to ask the same question: What do you get when you type pip --version?

If it says something like (python 2.7) then you need to use pip3 install pygame instead.

It looks like I also have pygame version 1.9.5 and it's working. This is what you should get:

>> python3 main.py 
pygame 1.9.5
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html

(Closing the issue was an accident)

[fredguth]

Ok, I uninstalled pygame and installed again making sure it was python 3 and pip3 (they were default, anyway). This time it worked, thanks!

[mdeyo]

Sounds great! Let me know if you need any more help.