How do I delete the "Hello from the pygame community" console alert while using pygame?

Question

Every time I run my python game, I get an annoying alert in the console saying:

Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html

How do I delete this?

score 33 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 10 '22 at 19:35

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Modifying the library would mean that you would have to modify the library everywhere you ship your code, and is generally not a good idea.

The upcoming release 1.9.5 of pygame will include an option to turn off the message without modifying the library:

You have to set the environment variable PYGAME_HIDE_SUPPORT_PROMPT to any value.

On Windows: set PYGAME_HIDE_SUPPORT_PROMPT=1

On Linux etc.: export PYGAME_HIDE_SUPPORT_PROMPT=1

Or even in your code:

from os import environ
environ['PYGAME_HIDE_SUPPORT_PROMPT'] = '1'

import pygame  # it is important to import pygame after that

edited Oct 10 '22 at 19:35

Coder Gautam YT

answered Jan 18 '19 at 02:40

Wombatz

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Note that this would only work if you build pygame from source, or wait for the 1.9.5 release. – sloth Jan 18 '19 at 06:48
Is removing the print statement against their toc? From what I read, it seems like they don't care. – Lord Elrond Jan 18 '19 at 17:14
@Jane, I don't know, but my point is, that modifying the library is a bad idea: imagine the library gets an update, how do you merge that, or you send your program to someone else, then they also have to modify the library. – Wombatz Jan 18 '19 at 19:29
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Works perfectly, but unfortunately it violates PEP 8. ;-( – A. Donda May 12 '19 at 15:20

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '19 at 01:40

Mac OS

Navigate to: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pygame/ and open _init_.py

(hint: this is the Library for your Macintosh HD, not your users library)

scroll down to the bottom of the page, then delete the line saying: print('Hello from the pygame community ... )

If you can't find your Library folder, then you probably still have the default settings set to hide it.

(this is untested, if you have problems let me know so I can update)

Navigate to: C:\Python\Lib\site-packages\pygame and open _init_.py
scroll down to the bottom of the page, then delete the line saying: print('Hello from the pygame community ... )

This works out great! I had been wondering how to do this for some time! Thank you!! — 360programmer, Jan 18 '19 at 02:07