Easy Guide for Installing Pillow and Pygame on Windows XP with Python 3.4.3

[cobalt124]

TL;DR Summary

Installing Pillow and Pygame

I'm using Windows XP without Internet access with Python 3.4.3 installed. I wish to install Pillow and Pygame, but can't get them to install correctly. I'm going round in circles on the Internet, StackExchange and other sites. I've tried using:
Pillow-5.4.1.win32-py3.4.exe
Pillow-5.4.1-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl
pygame-1.9.2a0.win32-py3.2.msi
pygame-1.9.2-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl
I'm either doing something wrong and/or using the wrong installers. Does anybody know of a simple step by step guide to getting this working?

 

[jedishrfu]

Have you checked out the anaconda distro. You should be able to easily install pygame and pillow in its ecosystem via the command:

conda install -c cogsci pygame

https://anaconda.org/cogsci/pygame
and pillow via

conda install -c anaconda pillow

Without internet access will be much more problematic I fear.

 

[sysprog]

Summary: Installing Pillow and Pygame

I'm using Windows XP without Internet access with Python 3.4.3 installed. I wish to install Pillow and Pygame, but can't get them to install correctly. I'm going round in circles on the Internet, StackExchange and other sites. I've tried using:
Pillow-5.4.1.win32-py3.4.exe
Pillow-5.4.1-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl
pygame-1.9.2a0.win32-py3.2.msi
pygame-1.9.2-cp34-cp34m-win32.whl
I'm either doing something wrong and/or using the wrong installers. Does anybody know of a simple step by step guide to getting this working?

You haven't said what error you're getting -- I will venture a guess that there's an incompatibility between Win XP (SP3?) + Python 3.4.3 and the install program -- that of course doesn't help you to fix your problem -- a better attempt at diagnosis and correction, for me at least, would require more information.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Don't try without internet access, it will be quite difficult.

Once you have internet, you can easily run pip from CMD (open CMD as administrator) using the commands pip install pillow and pip install pygame. I tried out in my system (win 10), and it worked properly.

 

[sysprog]

Don't try without internet access, it will be quite difficult.

Once you have internet, you can easily run pip from CMD (open CMD as administrator) using the commands pip install pillow and pip install pygame. I tried out in my system (win 10), and it worked properly.

He said that he's running XP. Entering 'pip' into a command prompt on Win7 on an internet-connected machine defaults to trying to load pipelist64.exe -- I'm not sure that will run right on whichever edition of XP he's running (I put "SP3?" in an earlier post) -- he might be running a 32-bit OS -- XP Pro 64, from year 2005, may be more recent than the XP he's using.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

He said that he's running XP. Entering 'pip' into a command prompt on Win7 on an internet-connected machine defaults to trying to load pipelist64.exe -- I'm not sure that will run right on whichever edition of XP he's running (I put "SP3?" in an earlier post) -- he might be running a 32-bit OS -- XP Pro 64, from year 2005, may be more recent than the XP he's using.

Most versions of Python have a x86 installer. That will have a version of pip specifically for 32 bit machines. In case the command pip somehow invokes the 64 bit version, the 32-bit version can be selected by navigating to the installation directory.

 

[cobalt124]

Thanks for all the advice, sorry for the late response times are busy at the moment. I suspected this would be trickier without internet access so I'm going to get that set up before I proceed and hopefully the process will be a lot more straightforward. If I still have problems, I may take a look at Anaconda.