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Kivy for Python 3 on Mac OS X

I was wondering if kivy

Python 3 is supported on Mac OS X systems. The download page from the official site kivy

seems to be kivy-1.9.0

available for Python 3.4 for Windows systems, but that doesn't seem to support Python 3 on Mac OS X:

Mac OS X Mac OS X 10.9, 10.10 (Python 2.7 required)
Kivy-1.9.0-rev3-osx.dmg (Mirror)

It seems a bit but pointless, why should kivy support Python 3 on Windows but not Mac OS X? Could this be due to the lack of PyGame support for Python 3 for OS X systems? In fact, there is a way to install PyGame for OS X systems for Python 3, so I don’t understand why they don’t fix this issue if it really is a problem.

I also tried to install it globally via pip3

using:

sudo pip3 install kivy

But I am getting the following error:

Collecting kivy Downloading Kivy-1.9.0.tar.gz (16.2MB) 100% | ███████████████████████████████ | 16.2 MB 34 kB / s Complete output from python setup.py egg_info command:

Cython is missing, its required for compiling kivy !


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 20, in <module>
  File "/private/tmp/pip-build-qt70t_44/kivy/setup.py", line 173, in <module>
    from Cython.Distutils import build_ext
ImportError: No module named 'Cython'

----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip-build-qt70t_44/kivy
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You will need to build from source .

As mentioned in the previous post, you will need to install Cython.

To get the latest version use



$ pip3 install cython

From there, you need to change setup.py. Here's an example of how I did it.

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As per the error message the package is missing cython

:

Cython is missing, its required for compiling kivy !
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ImportError: No module named 'Cython'


You have to run pip install cython

. Then installing from source worked for me, versus using pip

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