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Author pysuresh
Recipients paul.moore, pysuresh, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2019-11-08.15:12:56
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I tried to install pygame, using pip install pygame, on my windows 10 running python 3.8.0. But it fails with the following error messages

Can you please help. I read on the internet that 3.8 is not stable yet for pygame. Is it true?

   ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: 'c:\users\smuru02\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\python.exe' -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\smuru02\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\\pygame\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\smuru02\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\\pygame\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base 'C:\Users\smuru02\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\pygame\pip-egg-info'
         cwd: C:\Users\smuru02\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\pygame\
    Complete output (17 lines):


    WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"
    Using WINDOWS configuration...


    Download prebuilts to "prebuilt_downloads" and copy to "./prebuilt-x86"? [Y/n]Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\smuru02\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\pygame\setup.py", line 194, in <module>
        buildconfig.config.main(AUTO_CONFIG)
      File "C:\Users\smuru02\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\pygame\buildconfig\config.py", line 210, in main
        deps = CFG.main(**kwds)
      File "C:\Users\smuru02\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\pygame\buildconfig\config_win.py", line 576, in main
        and download_win_prebuilt.ask(**download_kwargs):
      File "C:\Users\smuru02\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-0yqtpy1n\pygame\buildconfig\download_win_prebuilt.py", line 302, in ask
        reply = raw_input(
    EOFError: EOF when reading a line
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
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