How to find the pygame example files?

[metulburr]

im not really sure then where macs put things. I never have used or would ever use one.

I would then use python itself to tell me where it is
1) open the interpreter you want to use python 3.7 which i am assuming on a mac would be invoking it like:

python3.7

or maybe even

python37

then run sys.path to find its location

metulburr@ubuntu:~$ python3.7
Python 3.7.3 (default, Mar 26 2019, 01:59:45) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python37.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.7', '/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']
>>> 

That would give you the correct location of the paths for that specific python version to find the example files

In my case i would install pygame to my python3.7 via

metulburr@ubuntu:~$ python3.7 -m pip install pygame
Collecting pygame
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/18/b3/0bf5afdcf6ef95d2a343cd7865585a6efe5e3e727c1a4f3385c9935248cf/pygame-1.9.6-cp37-cp37m-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (11.4MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 11.4MB 153kB/s 
Installing collected packages: pygame
Successfully installed pygame

confirmation:

metulburr@ubuntu:~$ python3.7
Python 3.7.3 (default, Mar 26 2019, 01:59:45) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pygame
pygame 1.9.6
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html

examples execution:

metulburr@ubuntu:~$ python3.7 -m pygame.examples.aliens
pygame 1.9.6
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html

EDIT:
after installing mine, it installed pygame to this path in my home.

metulburr@ubuntu:~/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pygame/examples$ ls
aacircle.py      fonty.py                       playmus.py
aliens.py        freetype_misc.py               prevent_display_stretching.py
arraydemo.py     glcube.py                      __pycache__
audiocapture.py  headless_no_windows_needed.py  scaletest.py
blend_fill.py    __init__.py                    scrap_clipboard.py
blit_blends.py   liquid.py                      scroll.py
camera.py        macosx                         sound_array_demos.py
chimp.py         mask.py                        sound.py
cursors.py       midi.py                        stars.py
data             moveit.py                      testsprite.py
dropevent.py     oldalien.py                    textinput.py
eventlist.py     overlay.py                     vgrade.py
fastevents.py    pixelarray.py                  video.py