I would like to use the freetype module to render text from a BDF font file, but I am getting a vague error. I am using the 8x8 font from this site: http://beej.us/c64bdf/c64bdf/c64.bdf
>>> import os >>> os.environ["PYGAME_FREETYPE"] = "1" >>> import pygame >>> pygame.font <module 'pygame.ftfont' from 'C:\\Python33\\lib\\site-packages\\pygame\\ftfont.py'> >>> import pygame.freetype >>> pygame.freetype.init() >>> c64 = pygame.freetype.Font(r'C:\Users\marshalls\Downloads\c64.bdf', 8) >>> s = c64.render('TEST', pygame.Color('white'), pygame.Color('blue')) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> SystemError: error return without exception set >>> Can somebody spot what I am doing wrong? I am using a recent build of pygame 1.9.2pre and Python 3.3 (32-bit) on Windows. Thanks, Jason