Open your PyCharm project. Go to File->Settings->Project->Project Interpreter. There will be a list of all installed modules on the current python environment you are using. If pygame is not listed there, it hasn't been installed for that PyCharm project (using that python environment).

You can install it by using PyCharm interface, just click on the + sign and search for pygame and click install.

Well, you don't have to download it for PyCharm here. You probably know how it checks your code. Through the interpreter! You don't need to use complex command lines or anything like that. You need to is:

• Download the appropriate interpreter with PyGame included

• Open your PyCharm IDE (Make sure it is up to date)

• Go to File

• Press Settings (Or Ctrl + Alt + S)

• Double click on the option that looks like Project: Name_of_Project

• Click on Project Interpreter

• Choose the interpreter you want to use that includes PyGame as a module

• Save your options

And you are ready to go! Here is an alternate (I have never done this, please try to test it)

• Add PyGame in the same folder as your PyCharm file (Your PyCharm stuff is always in a specific file placed by you during installation/upgrade) Please consider putting your PyCharm stuff inside a folder for easy access.

I hope this helps you!

I had the same issue, and ended up going into cmd and doing pip install pycharm , and then going by into pycharm > settings > project > project interpreter, and swapping the interpreter from the virtual to my python install location. All my already installed stuff showed up in the list, and I could install other things without a problem.

In your py script:

import sys
##lets check if this module appears in the sys.path

exist = False
for path in sys.path:
    if 'pygame' in path:
        print path
        exist = True
if not exist:
    sys.path.append('... the path to the pygame dir.. where the __init__.py')

I recommend do add the path of pygame to the PYTHONPATH environement variable of the shell you want to execute your script from. rather than editing the sys.path in py script directly.

PYTHONPATH is an environment variable which you can set to add additional directories where python will look for modules and packages. e.g.:

If you are in windows you can use the set command to extend PYTHONPATH.

in linux:

# make python look in the pygameDirPath subdirectory of your home directory for
# modules and packages 
export PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:${HOME}/pygameDirPath

Do you have multiple version of Python installed? I'm guessing that PyCharm is using a different install.

To ensure proper setup, you can download pygame from PyCharm directly.

You should now be able to import pygame and use them in your scripts.

You probably have wrong Python interpreter speicfied in PyCharm preferences. Go to

PyCharm -> Preferences... -> Project: project -> Project Interpreter

and from the dropdown list choose your Python interpreter or add it manually if PyCharm is not seeing it.