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Python Cant exit a Pygame game [duplicate]

I just spent a fair amount of time finding a 64-bit installation of pygame to use with python 3.3, (here) and now am trying to make a window. However, although the window opens up fine it does not close when it hit the x button. In fact, I have to close IDLE to close the window. I am running a 64 bit version of Win 7. Here is my code:
import pygame
import time
(width, height) = (300, 200)
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height))
pygame.display.flip()
pygame.display.set_caption("Hello World")
running = True
while running:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
When I append
time.sleep(5)
pygame.quit()
It still doesn't close. My only guess would be that pygame.quit might go inside one of the loops, but even if that were resolved I would greatly prefer being able to close the window when I want to.

Most pygame tutorials seem to suggest exiting by calling pygame.quit() and then sys.exit(). I have personally run into problems (was on a unix system though) where this still did not close the window properly. The solution was to add pygame.display.quit() specifically before pygame.quit(). That should not be necessary as far as I can tell, and I'm afraid I don't know why that solved the issue but it did.

if you want to make pygame close when window button x is pressed, put the code like this:
from sys import exit
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
exit()
We put exit() after pygame.quit(), because pygame.quit() makes the system exit and exit() closes that window.

Not sure but try this Because you code runs fine on my system after I add pygame.quit() at the end
import pygame
import time
(width, height) = (300, 200)
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((width, height))
pygame.display.flip()
pygame.display.set_caption("Hello World")
running = True
try:
while running:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
pygame.quit()
except SystemExit:
pygame.quit()
Its perhaps because as Idle is made on Tkinter and thus Tkinter and Pygame main loop do not have a mutual understanding.
Your code will run very well on command prompt though.

This was the final code that worked for me on OSX whilst keeping the kernel alive on Jupyter. EDIT - it does still crash the kernel sometimes :-(
running = True
while running:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
pygame.display.quit()
pygame.quit()
exit()
Also needed to downgrade ipython to get rid of some magic alias warning messages using:
conda install ipython=7.2.0
apparently that issue is due to be fixed in ipython 7.6.0

Suffered the same issues on Python 3.7.4 while running it from in IDE (Spyder 3.3.6). In my case the pygame.quit() would not completely close the program.
Nonetheless, adding quit() or exit() did the trick for me!

Add this at the top:
import sys
Add this where you need to quit:
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()

try using the following command:
sys.exit(0)
notice: You will need to import the sys library in order to use it.

The IDE interferes with how pygame runs the code. Try to run it from the commandline or the terminal. The problem should disappear.

To answer the original question: You must call pygame.quit() after breaking the main loop. One elegant solution goes as follows:
def run():
pygame.init()
while True:
# ...
for event in pygame.event.get():
# Handle other events
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
return pygame.quit()

Is there a way to completely prevent the user form exiting the pygame window?

I want to completely prevent the user from closing the Pygame window except for the key x. Currently, I'm able to prevent the user from closing it, but I am unable to prevent the user from opening another window that overlaps it (press windows key -> open chrome, which overlaps the Pygame window).
import sys
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
infoObject = pygame.display.Info()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((infoObject.current_w, infoObject.current_h), flags=pygame.NOFRAME)
while True:
screen.fill((0, 0, 0))
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
if event.key == pygame.K_x:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()
if event.type == QUIT:
pass
pygame.display.flip()

We don't have complete solutions for this task.
You can make the title var vanish away by setting display mode to NOFRAME (You have already used this): pygame.display.set_mode(flags = pygame.NOFRAME), but this is overkill for just stopping close buttons
Although any user with minimum Computer Knowledge will fire up a Task manager and kill python.exe :-(
There are ways of disabling task manager through Registry in Windows, Image File Execution Options blah blah, but your game script will barely run with Administrator priviliges (With nagging of UAC)

In order to do this, you can add this piece of code to your pygame.display.set_mode():
pygame.display.set_mode(..., flags=pygame.NOFRAME). Now, the bar with the "x" button will disapear.
Notice that if you decide to make this change, you won't be able to move your game window anymore. (Unless you change it back).

Pygame window is not responding after just making it

I wanted to make a game using pygame and I started my code making the pygame window
import pygame
pygame.init()
pygame.display.set_mode((1500, 1000))
But every time I run the program, my pygame window does not respond.
Does anyone know what is happening, this did happen to me on previous codes too but it wasn't all the time like it is now

you need a game loop to start the game and you need events to work on.
for python code i suggest:
import pygame
pygame.init()
pygame.display.set_mode((1500, 1000))
start_game = True
while start_game:
print("Game Started!")
and for the events you can use this code in the while loop:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONUP:
print("mouse button up pressed")
the source of this code is : RipTutorial

I assume that by 'my pygame window does not respond' you mean that you believe the window is not displaying. I think that you are just missing it because it is closing too quickly.
The window does display, but because your program ends right after you create the window, the window is immediately closed again. This is likely just happening so quickly that you are not noticing it. If you want to see this, then just put a call to sleep after opening the window and you will see the window sit there until the sleep expires and then it will close.
If you do not mean that and you are seeing the window but expecting it to respond, then I do not understand what you expect it to respond to. You do not have any code that tries to make it respond to anything.
EDIT:
I just noticed that #AnassABEA suggests that in a comment under his answer, though not in his answer. #AnassABEA you should update your answer to include this since I believe that is the actual answer to his question, not the missing event loop.

Add this below to your code:
run = True
while run:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
run = False
pygame.quit()
Lines 4 to 5 of the code are for closing pygame when the window is closed.

Pygame : The game stops temporarily when I am moving the window

I'm a new in PyGame and I was making a game. Until I discovered that when you were moving the window to another place of your desktop for example, the game temporarily stops. But ticks of the game still running when I used pygame.time.get_ticks().
So I made a completely new program with only the necessary code and it does the same thing.
Can someone explain me why it does it and if we can resolve this problem?
import pygame
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800,600))
pygame.display.set_caption('The Test Program')
running = True
update_counter = 1
while running:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False
pygame.display.flip()
print(str(update_counter) + " updates")
update_counter += 1
pygame.quit()
quit()
# So try to move the window across your screen and you will see that, prints will stop and they will resume when you will release the click

So someone tell me that was normal, so I think it's only on Windows but there are no solutions. I put a script that show a pause symbol on screen when the cursor leave the window to make it normal.

Pygame.display.update() disappearing [duplicate]

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Trying to display a png file in pygame using pygame.display.update, and it shows for less than a second then disappears.
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We have recently moved our school lab to Mac, and when I run some code to display an image from a file, the display appears then disappears immediately. I am using the 3.4 interpreter in Pycharm and Pygame version 1.9.2. Can someone please help?
Here is my code:
# displays a hard-coded filename in a window
import pygame
pygame.init()
picture = pygame.image.load("cards/S01.png")
pygame.display.set_mode(picture.get_size())
main_surface = pygame.display.get_surface()
main_surface.blit(picture, (0, 0))
pygame.display.update()

If the code you posted is the complete code, then that is the reason why its exiting immediately, because immediately after calling pygame.display.update() , the program exits. I do not think this should have been working before.
One thing you can do for this , add a loop to run till the user presses close, after your code -
running = True
while running:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
running = False

Put a
time.sleep(10)
after pygame.display.update() see if it stays up longer.