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Really strange issue here. I have a 64bit copy of Python 3.8.1 on my Mac (Catalina 10.15.2). I have successfully installed pygame via pip3 install pygame. Every time I run Python3 and import pygame, I get the successful message of hello from the pygame community....

However, if I run any program that requires an import of pygame, the icon for my python launcher just loops and loads for an infinite amount of time. I get no error messages. I literally get nothing. No opened windows. Just a blank line on the terminal (and IDLE terminal) window after the hello from the... message.

I have on my Mac taskbar a bouncing icon of Python, indicating that it is loading. But nothing happens? I've tested this on every instance of a pygame program with no success. Even the Aliens example embedded within the program does not work.

Santosh Aryal
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  • this question has been [answered] (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58489348/unable-to-install-pygame-on-python-3-8-via-pip-windows-10). – PythonicOreo Jan 11 '20 at 03:15

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I had the same issue. Did this in Terminal: 

python3 -m pip install pygame==2.0.0.dev6

and in PyCharm I installed pygame package once more into project interpreter with "Specify version" option selected for a specific version: 2.0.0.dev6

Then it started working.

Inder
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