Aborted (core dumped) after first piece is dropped

[bittner]

When I run the yat program it looks polished and seems to work smoothly at first sight (read: "makes appetite for more!"), but as soon as the first piece is dropped and the second piece starts falling down a fatal error occurs and the core is dumped:

$ python -m yat
pygame 1.9.6
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html
Fatal Python error: PyEval_SaveThread: NULL tstate
Aborted (core dumped)

$ python --version
Python 2.7.15+

I'm not sure why this happens, but I'd approach this issue by migrating to Python 3 and see whether the problem still pops up. Any thoughts?

[bittner]

This seems to by a Pygame issue: With "pygame<1.9.5" YAT works fine.

[bittner]

Similar issue on the Pygame issue tracker: pygame/pygame#1515