Re: [pygame] Re: Display won't close gracefully

[Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan Charpentier wrote:
> Call pygame.quit() before your program closes. Since IDLE runs 
> programs within its own process any problem with the program can hang 
> IDLE.
Even if the program works normally (doesn't generate an exception), it 
may not work in IDLE.
What happens when you run the program through the normal interpreter is 
that, when the program ends, pygame is garbage collected, which 
automatically calls the
quit() method and gets rid of the window.
So technically a call to the quit method is not required for programs 
you'll only run from the command line.
Now, when you run the code in IDLE, since the program is running in the 
same process as IDLE, pygame doesn't get its quit method called 
automatically (because it is still in the scope of the interpreter, I 
guess), so you have to  do this manually.
I am fairly certain this is correct, but I make no guarantees.
HTH,
-Luke
> On 2/19/07, *Daniel McNeese * <dgmcnees@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:dgmcnees@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoobear@...> writes:
>
>
>     > Are you running the program through IDLE, perhaps?
>
>     Yes, actually.  Does IDLE have a problem with pygame?
>
>     What should I be doing, exactly?