I'm using a mac and typed
pip install pygame
into my terminal.
The terminal said the download was successful, but when I use
import pygame
in IDLE, I get an error.
I've looked at questions similar to this one and have not found an answer. Does anyone know what the problem could be?
Your terminal is referring to a different environment that the one that your IDLE environment refers to. For example Pycharm saves its python packages in the venv folder by default. Pip installing a package through the terminal would not allow you to import the package inside pycharm because you have not installed it in the venv environment.
To fix this, I believe you should use the command
source activate
in order to activate the environment that IDLE is running. You should be able to install it, and import it then.
