[pygame] Sysfont.py hanging

[Winchell Chung <nyrath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My apologies if this has been fixed already.

I'm using PyGame 1.7.1 (pygame-1.7.1release.win32-py2.4.exe)
with Python 2.4.2 on a Windows XP sp2 machine.

I downloaded Pgu 0.10, and attempted to use the
leveledit script. It works fine when loading the
example levels, but it hangs when I tried creating a new
level.

Tracing it with the debugger revealed that it appears
to be caught in an infinite loop in the
lib\site-packages\pygame\sysfont.py module at
about line 267.

A similar problem apparently appeared on a Debian Linux system:
http://tinyurl.com/7lh7f

Is there any fix or work around?