Installing pygame on Windows (custom Python location not supported?) - windows

I am running Python 3.5 on Windows 8. I am trying to install pygame. I downloaded and ran
pygame-1.9.2a0.win32-py3.2.msi (6.4 Mb)
from
http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml
From python I get, after starting a new session:
>>> import pygame
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>
import pygame
ImportError: No module named 'pygame'
How do I install? Was my PythonPath updated? Looking at sys.path, it doesn't look like it. How do I get Python to see the library? Where was the library installed? Thanks for the help.
Update1:
The first step i the pygame intsaller states "Select Python Installations - Select the locations where pygame-1.9.2a0 should be installed." Underneath that is a selection that states "Python from another location". This doesn't make sense to me. Anyone?
Update2: I solved the problem - I reinstalled python in the default location (it wasn't before). The pygame installer doesn't seem to support custom installations. Ok, fixed. Thanks all for the help.

Up to now, Windows binaries must match the Python binaries. ...py-3.2.msi is for 3.2 and will not work with 3.5. Either get a 3.5 binary from the site you already used or use pip to install pygame-1.9.2a0-cp35-none-win32.whl from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ Use pip install /? to get info on how to install from somewhere other than pypi. It might be easier to download the file to your machine first. The site above says a bit about this.

Make sure you have 32-bit python and pygame.

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On Deb:
apt install python3-xlib
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<ipython-input-1-5a0bd626bb1d> in <module>()
----> 1 import numpy
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File "numpy.pxd", line 155, in init sklearn.utils.murmurhash (sklearn/utils/murmurhash.c:5029)
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likely many more.
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Thank you! and sorry for so many details.
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I installed the numpy+mkl whl with:
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all goes well.
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python -m pip install scipy-0.18.1-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl
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Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python35\Lib\site-packages\scipy\io\__init__.py" , line 97, in <module>
File "C:\Python35\Lib\site-packages\scipy\io\matlab\__init__.py", line 13 in <module>
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help(kapteyn)
Help on package kapteyn:
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kapteyn - Kapteyn package.
FILE
c:\users\windows 7\anaconda\kapteyn\__init__.py
PACKAGE CONTENTS
_ni_support
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doccer
filters
interpolation
maputils
mplutil
positions
rulers
shapes
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DATA
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Kindly help. I have never imported any module before.
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Check that kmpfit.so is in the kapteyn folder in site-packages, showing that kmpfit installed correctly.
>> from kapteyn import kmpfit failed, ImportError: cannot import name kmpfit. I did some digging and discovered that it was still importing kapteyn from the folder that I downloaded, not from site-packages.
Delete the downloaded kapteyn folder, then try again. It worked!

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