Quote:Original post by kthxbi
thing is, ive seen people talk about a load of SDL packages and multiple different compilers or whatever for python and its pretty much melted my brain. i was thinking of just using winpython but would this not work on its own?

Yeah, you're making this way too complicated. The official python website contains the standard python interpretor for windows. From there your only decision is to use either the latest Python 3.X version or the latest Python 2.Y version. The only reason I'd suggest not using Python 3.X is whether some of the libraries you want to use are compatible with Python 3.X. From what I can tell Pygame is compatible with Python 3.X and Pygame is a wrapper around SDL so if you just want to start with 2D games for awhile you can probably start there. Otherwise go with Python 2.Y which is very stable and a lot of libraries (including Pygame) will still work with it. Don't dwell on it too much. You can always switch and the changes probably won't hurt you too bad.

So, get Python from here and also look at the 'documentation' pages which include tutorials on Python. Then get Pygame from here. Again, the website contains some tutorials. That's all you really need. Eventually you may want to get a new IDE for Python since the one that comes with Python isn't that great.