Error while import pygame

Question

I've installed pygame with Anaconda using the following command:
conda install --channel https://conda.anaconda.org/kne pygame

Then I tried to import pygame and I got the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Users/ejalaa/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py", line 133, in <module>
from pygame.base import *
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/ejalaa/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so, 2): Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/sdl/lib/libSDL-1.2.0.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/ejalaa/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pygame/base.so
Reason: image not found

What does that mean ? Any idea how I can solve it?

Thank you.

Answer 1

A. Check if you have a 64 or 32 bit version pygame and make sure your version of python is the same.

B. Use something like pip install or any other type of method to install pygame.

C. Install a previous version of pygame and python, you might have some more luck with that.

The error is basically saying that a class in pygame called image could not be found. Obviously pygame has not been installed properly so I would suggest using the above methods to install it again.

I hope this helps!