I doubt that this is related to your problem, but since you're using Python 3, shouldn't that shebang be "#!/usr/bin/python3"?
From: Rodolfo Neu <rneu2011@xxxxxxxxx> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 1:41:32 PM Subject: [pygame] loading images with special characters on file name
Hi, After installing Python 3.1.3, I have problems loading images whose file name contains special characters, like ã and ç
Pygame.image.load doesn't work even with: #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding utf-8 -*-