DLL load failed for pygame

Question

When I choose to run the code, I get an error message saying:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/MarkKenny/Desktop/GamTut.py", line 4, in <module>
    import pygame, sys
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\pygame\__init__.py", line 127, in <module>
    from pygame.base import *
ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application."
>>>

I'm using Python 3.3.4 64bit and using the latest available version of Pygame.

All suggestions/answers would be extremely appreciated.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 19 '14 at 15:21

Are you using the 64-bit version of Pygame? You say that you are using 64-bit Python, but you don't state which version of Pygame you are using other than "the latest available version".

Try typing the following into a python shell:

import pygame

If there is no result, pygame is probably installed correctly. If this error appears, then you have not installed the correct version of pygame for your OS:

ImportError: No module named pygame

There are some unofficial 64-bit pygame binaries here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame I'm not sure how good they are because I don't have any experience with them, I just use the standard 32-bit version of pygame available here: http://pygame.org/download.shtml

DLL load failed for pygame

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