On Aug 3, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Ben Willmore wrote:

>  I was excited to see on Bob Ippolito's website that he has updated  
>  OS X pygame so it will run without either pythonw or being in an  
>  app bundle.  However, I found when running pygame (today's CVS)  
>  from fink python2.4, I got the following error:
> 
>  ---
>  [ben@assam ben] $ python2.4
>  Python 2.4.1 (#1, Aug  2 2005, 23:12:54)
>  [GCC 4.0.0 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5026)] on darwin
>  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import pygame
>  pygame.init()
>  >>> pygame.init()
>  (6, 0)
>  >>> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((468, 60))
>  2005-08-03 21:37:01.917 python2.4[26902] *** Uncaught exception:  
>  <NSInternalInconsistencyException> Error (1002) creating CGSWindow
>  Trace/BPT trap

The actual problem is that you're spending too much time before  
creating the screen... your fix works around that problem by calling  
NSApplicationLoad on import, but it breaks the detection that goes on  
later in pygame.macosx to see if pygame is already running in the  
context of an application and will break other things.

Try this instead, with no patch:
python -i -c "import pygame; pygame.init()"

-bob