Pygame import error in pyenv 2.7.11 on Arch Linux

Question

I installed pygame on my Arch Linux machine with the following command:

$ sudo pacman -S python2-pygame

I am using pyenv and the version of Python in my virtual environment for this project is 2.7.11

When I run my program

$ python smartcab/agent.py

here is what I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "smartcab/agent.py", line 2, in <module>
    from environment import Agent, Environment
  File "/home/alex/machine-learning/projects/smartcab/smartcab/environment.py", line 5, in <module>
    from simulator import Simulator
  File "/home/alex/machine-learning/projects/smartcab/smartcab/simulator.py", line 4, in <module>
    import pygame
ImportError: No module named pygame

How can I solve this please?

Answer 1

On my own Arch Linux machine...

I have created a 2.7.11 virtualenv using pyenv and installed python2-pygame with pacman. With my virtualenv activated, I couldn't import pygame from python. So I was able to reproduce your issue.

After that, I tried downloading and compiling pygame's source with python setup.py install without success. It is complaining about a missing linux/videodev.h which seems to be (from what I found on the web) deprecated and replaced by linux/videodev2.h (which is there).

I won't go further, I hope this will help someone finding the solution.