Why when import pygame, it prints the version and welcome message. How delete it?

Question

Why is there a message when I import pygame, it prints the version and welcome message. The message reads

"pygame 1.9.4 Hello from the pygame community.  https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html"  

How can I disable this message?

Answer 1

It works for me:

import os os.environ['PYGAME_HIDE_SUPPORT_PROMPT'] = "hide" import pygame 

Answer 2

I didn't see a natural way to do it (yours is the only Google result for this that I could find), but I did achieve the same thing by temporarily disabling stdout while importing pygame.

import os, sys with open(os.devnull, 'w') as f:     # disable stdout     oldstdout = sys.stdout     sys.stdout = f      import pygame      # enable stdout     sys.stdout = oldstdout 

Here's the alternative suggested by @Mad Physicist:

import contextlib with contextlib.redirect_stdout(None):     import pygame