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!

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

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.

This is happening because your interpreter in Pycharm is not set to the right interpreter. Follow this:-

Step-1: you have to go to the edit configuration button situated at the topmost right screen of your pycharm window and after clicking on it select the interpreter you want from the list.

Step-2: Go to system settings (in Windows) or system preferences (in mac) and then select a project interpreter from the dropdown menu. From there, you can change the interpreter settings as well as install packages from the '+' sign. In this, you can also see the modules you have installed into the interpreter selected so choose the interpreter where you can see the pygame installed.

Uninstall pygame before attempting each install with pip3 uninstall pygame.

Try using pip3 install pygame

if that doesn't work, try pip install pygame-menu==2.0.1

Also, if you have python installed multiple times, it could be installed on one of those.