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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">hey everybody! first of all thanks for a fun, lightweight, friendly ide. I'm just poking around using Python as a way to learn basic coding, and idle is a fun place to do work. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm seeing a problem when I right-click and then hit F5 to run the program, where the first time I run the program it works fine, but subsequent runs fail. I'm using the pygame module and windowsXP. For example, a font I'm trying to render with pygame, first time renders fine, subsequent runs error that the font has no width. Opening the file via the executeable works fine.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Doing some research, I noticed this on the pygame.org page: </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"On Windows if you open a python file with a "right-click: Edit with Idle" the editor and interactive prompt both run from the same Python process."</FONT></P>
<P><A HREF="http://www.pygame.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.pygame.org/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is there a way to use the right-click option and save the F5 runs spawn a new python process?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">anyhow. . . thanks!</FONT>
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