Trying to display a png file in pygame using pygame.display.update, and it shows for less than a second then disappears.

Question

The image is a playing card. We are using pygame 4.5 community edition and pycharm 2.6.9 because 2.7 does not support pygame (this is a school). Here is the code:

Answer 1

Try this:

import pygame
pygame.init()
picture=pygame.image.load("cards/S01.png")
pygame.display.set_mode(picture.get_size())
main_surface = pygame.display.get_surface()
main_surface.blit(picture, (0,0))
while True:
   main_surface.blit(picture, (0,0))
   pygame.display.update()

pygame.display.update() updates a frame. There are multiple frames per second depending on what what you draw onto the surface.