“Text has zero width” error after reinitializing Pygame display?

Question

I have a project in Pygame 1.9.2 where I reinitialize the display multiple times, and draw text to the display surface. It works fine until I close the Pygame display and r

Answer 1

I found a solution that worked for me: just delete the font element before calling pygame.display.quit(), ie just del font every time you're done using it.

The font element is the one you created using the command:

font.SysFont("Comic Sans MS", 12)

but that I personally create using pygame.font.Font(None, font_size)