[Bug Report] Promote `PYGAME_HIDE_SUPPORT_PROMPT` to suppress pygame startup message

[Yutao Chen]

Describe the bug

I am using gymnasium with minigrid, which relies on pygame. When importing, pygame will print this message which is sometimes undesirable:

> python -c 'import gymnasium'
pygame 2.5.2 (SDL 2.28.3, Python 3.10.0)
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html

I can see that gymnasium actually tries to suppress this message

Gymnasium/gymnasium/__init__.py

Line 69 in 43ce95b

 os.environ["PYGAME_HIDE_SUPPORT_PROMPT"] = "hide" 

However, this is not currently working. I believe we need to promote this environment variable at least above envs.__init__

Gymnasium/gymnasium/__init__.py

Lines 23 to 24 in 43ce95b

 # necessary for `envs.__init__` which registers all gymnasium environments and loads plugins 
 from gymnasium import envs 

Code example

> pip install gymnasium==0.29.1 minigrid==2.3.1
...
> python -c 'import gymnasium'
pygame 2.5.2 (SDL 2.28.3, Python 3.10.0)
Hello from the pygame community. https://www.pygame.org/contribute.html

System info

python=3.10.0
gymnasium=0.29.1
minigird=2.3.1

Additional context

This should be an easy fix imo. I am happy to submit a PR if you like :)

Checklist

• I have checked that there is no similar issue in the repo

[Mark Towers]

Could this be added to minigrid separately?

[Yutao Chen]

Well I think it could. Should I move this ticket to minigrid repo instead?

[Mark Towers]

Please do