Hi Bob,

>  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()"

Hmm, interesting.  But your solution doesn't work for me:

(removed patch)
[ben@assam pygame] $ python2.4 -i -c "import pygame; pygame.init()"
 > >> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((468, 60))
2005-08-03 22:55:45.478 python2.4[5089] *** Uncaught exception:  
<NSInternalInconsistencyException>  Error (1002) creating CGSWindow

When you say 'too much time', what exactly do you mean?

Cheers

Ben