Error installing pygame python setup.py egg_info

Question

It seems the problem lies within the setup paths? Can anyone tell me how to even understand my errors? It won't let me install pygame. Here is the terminal window output once I enter python -m pip install --user pygame.

Collecting pygame
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b2/6b/c510f0853765eb2219ca5aa3d416d65bb0dea7cd9bb2984aea0a0e04c24d/pygame-1.9.4.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:


    WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "config.py"
    Using WINDOWS configuration...

    Path for SDL not found.
    Too bad that is a requirement! Hand-fix the "Setup"
    Path for FONT not found.
    Path for IMAGE not found.
    Path for MIXER not found.
    Path for PNG not found.
    Path for JPEG not found.
    Path for PORTMIDI not found.
    Path for COPYLIB_tiff not found.
    Path for COPYLIB_z not found.
    Path for COPYLIB_vorbis not found.
    Path for COPYLIB_ogg not found.

    If you get compiler errors during install, doublecheck
    the compiler flags in the "Setup" file.


    Continuing With "setup.py"
    Error with the "Setup" file,
    perhaps make a clean copy from "Setup.in".
    ---
    For help with compilation see:
        https://www.pygame.org/wiki/CompileWindows
    To contribute to pygame development see:
        https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
    ---
    C:\Users\Joshua\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-b12x3pbp\pygame\setup.py:321: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence \d
      return ', '.join(s for s in findall('\d+', ver)[0:3])
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\Joshua\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-b12x3pbp\pygame\setup.py", line 203, in <module>
        extensions = read_setup_file('Setup')
      File "C:\Users\Joshua\Desktop\Python 3.7\lib\distutils\extension.py", line 171, in read_setup_file
        line = expand_makefile_vars(line, vars)
      File "C:\Users\Joshua\Desktop\Python 3.7\lib\distutils\sysconfig.py", line 405, in expand_makefile_vars
        s = s[0:beg] + vars.get(m.group(1)) + s[end:]
    TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "NoneType") to str

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Joshua\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-b12x3pbp\pygame\

Answer 1

Try the following:

python3 -m pip install -U pygame --user

or

python -m pip install 

if none of these work try this question, the answer should be marked below the question.. I think you have the same issue