How do I install Pygame on Windows8 to work with Python 3.3.3?

Question

Speaking as someone who is new to stackoverflow and not that computer literate...

How do I get Pygame to work? I have been using IDLE (python GUI), Python version 3.3.3, and I want to add on Pygame. I downloaded and installed "pygame-1.9.2a0-hg_56e0eadfc267.win32-py3.3.msi" from Bitbucket and then tried to "import pygame" but got the following output in my window:

Python 3.3.3 (v3.3.3:c3896275c0f6, Nov 18 2013, 21:19:30) [MSC v.1600 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

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import pygame Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in

import pygame

File "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Python333\\lib\\site-packages\\pygame__init__.py", line 127, in from pygame.base import *

ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.

Does anyone know what is wrong, and how I can fix it?

Many thanks

L.

Answer 1

Direct quote from the site

windows 64bit users note: use the 32bit python with this 32bit pygame.

Also an extension to @Marius 's comment, you can get a pre-release 64 bit version of pygame here http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame