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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: 2to3 translation problem
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On 12/12/2015 16:31, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 12/12/15 15:09, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 12/12/2015 14:42, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>>> Debian Jessie, python 2.7; python 3.4
>>>
>>> I have an application, using pygame for graphics, that works fine under
>>> python2.7. I have run it through 2to3, but when running the result under
>>> python 3.4, I get the error :
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>    File "ppm304.py", line 9, in <module>
>>>      import pygame
>>> ImportError: No module named 'pygame'
>>>
>>> So, python 3.4 can't find the library, whilst python 2.7 can.
>>> How do I track down/fix the missing dependency.
>>
>> This isn't a 2to3 translation problem.  You've installed pygame under
>> 2.7 at some point, repeat the process for 3.4.  I've no idea how you'd
>> do that on Debian Jessie but on Windows it'd be "pip3.4 install pygame".
>>
> Thanks, Mark, for the pointer. I'm pretty sure I installed Pygame from
> Debian's repository, via apt-get install python-pygame. I believe that
> should be effective for any version of Python.
>
> Thanks anyway,
> Tony

My belief is that every package has to be installed in the site-packages 
directory for each version of Python.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence