pygame.error: video system not initialized

Question

so I get this error when I try to run my pygame code: pygame.error: video system not initialized

i specify where the wing IDE tells me it is in the code below

Answer 1

I had this issue recently, and I discovered a strange and unusual bug in the code that I'd written -- only after reading it and re-reading it a dozen times over a 10 minute stretch, trying to launch the file (which looked perfect) a dozen times.

There was pygame.init(). There was screen = pygame.display.set_mode((size)) with the variable size in position to be available in the global namespace.

Turns out it was the main game loop.

# main game loop
while RUNNING == True:
    for tneve in pygame.event.get():
        if tneve.type == QUIT:
            print(tneve)
            RUNNING = False
        loop()
        render()
        CLOCK.tick(FPS)
    cleanup()
# End

What a pain!

P.S. The problem is the one-stop-too-far indentation of everything below RUNNING = False.