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Re: [pygame] BUG: Pygame hangs when finding system font

James Paige wrote: 
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:55:06PM -0700, evilmrhenry wrote:

x86, Linux, Debian, Testing.
Python 2.3.5 and 2.4.2
Pygame 1.7.1


Code:
import pygame
pygame.init()
pygame.font.init()
pygame.font.SysFont('Arial', 50, bold=True)


The last line hangs forever on my machine. Ctrl-C gives:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pygame/sysfont.py", line 271, in SysFont
fontname = styles.get((bold, italic))
KeyboardInterrupt

It's not always that line, but always within the while loop that encloses that line.


pygame.font.get_fonts() returns
['bitstreamverasans', 'wasy10', 'bitstreamverasansmono', 'msbm10', 'msam10', 'opensymbol', 'cmsy10', 'cmr10', 'bitstreamveraserif', 'cmmi10', 'cmex10']



The following lines *do* work:
pygame.font.SysFont('test', 50, bold=True)
pygame.font.SysFont('Arial', 50)



Arial is a bad choice for default font if you plan to support GNU/linux. Arial is non-free, so it will rarely be installed. Your Debian box will not have Arial unless you apt-get the msttcorefonts package from the contrib repository

The game is *not* mine. I personally would pick a nice-looking free font, and include it with the game to prevent stuff like this from occuring.

But that does not explain why it is hanging. Attempting to load a non-existant font should do something more reasonable than hanging :)

---
James Paige


I'm going to agree with you...

I can't figure out what that while loop is doing, so don't expect a patch, but feel free to ask me for more information.