Well, the program was done so it quit. You need an event loop that keeps looping until you hit the quit button.
http://programarcadegames.com/python_examples/f.php?file=simple_graphics_demo.py Paul Vincent Craven On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 6:51 PM, tom arnall <kloro2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > The following creates a window on my screen, which disappears after > about 1 second: > > import pygame, sys > from pygame.locals import * > > # set up pygame > pygame.init() > > # set up the window > windowSurface = pygame.display.set_mode((500, 400), 0, 32) > pygame.display.set_caption('Hello world!') > > > > I've tried it with two setups with the same result: python2.7 and > python3.4. > > Before I put 3.4 on my system, it ran on python2.7 with what I expect > is the correct behavior, i.e., the image persisted until I killed > python. After installing 3.4 and pygame for 3.4, the current problem > emerged. > > My OS is Debian Wheezy. > > Thanks in advance for any help you can give me, > > Tom Arnall > > -- > Faced with the possibility of its extinction, every species finds > within itself powers unimaginable in the days of its complacency. >
