Installing Python for MacOS

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Hello everyone. Before we begin writing any code, it's a good idea to make sure we have the latest versions of Python and Pygame as well. So in this section, we're going to download and install both Python and Pygame for Mac, specifically. If you're using a PC then we've actually done the same thing in a different video, so skip this. Go ahead and watch that. It's gonna be the same process, just obviously for Windows instead. So we're gonna go ahead and open up a new browser. And I have Chrome open, but you can open whichever one you'd like, and we're going to start by downloading Python. So simply search for download Python. We're gonna click this first link which is just Python slash downloads, and we're gonna download version 3.6.5. 2.7.14 is still fine, but it's a little out of date. This has the latest stuff that we need. So we're just gonna go ahead and click on this button, and it will download a package type file. Once this is done, simply go ahead and open it. Okay, and we're just gonna follow these instructions here starting with the intro, with the read me and then the history and license, do make sure you actually read through this. I'm sure all of you will. Once that's done, we're gonna go ahead click continue. Click agree. And then we'll be fine with this location unless you want it to be in a very specific place. Let's just go ahead and install that there. So you'll need to provide your permission. Okay, once that's done, we'll go ahead and install the software. Now I believe I do have the latest version already, so this should be very quick for me. Otherwise it should only take about a minute or so for you guys. So I'm just gonna pause the recording until this is done. Alright, so now that this is finished, this window probably will have popped up which gives you all of the main pieces of software that are installed with Python 3.6. Obviously there's a lot of other stuff as well, but just make sure that IDLE is here, as this is going to be the IDE that we'll be using, okay? So you can close it up if you want. Just go ahead and click close here. Okay, we can move the installer to trash, as we don't need that anymore. And now that we're done, we can download and install Pygame. Now, seeing as we're using Python 3.6, the actual download that we want isn't found on the Pygame site. So if I search for Pygame download, and go to Pygame's main download site, I actually don't see the version I want. What we'll want is 1.9.3 as this is the latest version, but for Macs, the latest version you can download from this site is 1.9.1 and that requires Python 2.7. That's not gonna be the one that we'll want, so we'll actually have to do a little bit ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BajXhwUhN4k