Running PyGame on OS X

Ian Kelly ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 17:42:45 EDT 2016


On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:33 PM, D.M. Procida
<real-not-anti-spam-address at apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:
> I have PyGame installed.
>
> As soon as I run pygame.init() or pygame.display.init(), a PyGame icon
> will pop up in the Dock, and then its application will simply stop
> responding. Needless to say, I can't actually do anything with it.
>
> What is this application, and what is likely the problem with it?

That sounds like it's just the PyGame display window. Likely it's not
responding because you just called init() and didn't actually start
running an event loop to process events on the window. I'd suggest
working through a PyGame tutorial.



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