[Python] Pygame error using font: no such file or directory

i have a pygame program that simulates a race car, driving and dodging blocks, this program worked 100% until i tried it today, now it gives me an error:

Warning (from warnings module):
File "/home/vandeventer/Documents/Pieter/pygame.resies.py", line 50
largeText = pygame.font.Font(None,75)
RuntimeWarning: use font: libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(ImportError: libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/vandeventer/Documents/Pieter/pygame.resies.py", line 151, in <module>
begin()
File "/home/vandeventer/Documents/Pieter/pygame.resies.py", line 29, in begin
message_display(over)
File "/home/vandeventer/Documents/Pieter/pygame.resies.py", line 50, in message_display
largeText = pygame.font.Font(None,75)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/pygame/__init__.py", line 74, in __getattr__
raise NotImplementedError(MissingPygameModule)
NotImplementedError: font module not available
(ImportError: libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)


this makes me think somethings wrong with the font i use, it is realy very frustrating, and i realy cant see anything wrong, here is my code:

import pygame
import time
import random


pygame.init()

display_width = 1500
display_height = 1000

black = (255,255,255)
white = (255,255,255)
red = (255,0,0)
back_ground = (25,25,25)
over = "Start your engins!"



car_width = 50

gameDisplay = pygame.display.set_mode((display_width,display_height))
pygame.display.set_caption("A bit Racey")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

carImg = pygame.image.load("resieskar.png")
resized = pygame.transform.scale(carImg, (50, 100))

def begin():
message_display(over)

def you_win():
message_display("You Win!")

def things_dodged(count):
font = pygame.font.SysFont(None,25)
text = font.render("Dodged: "+str(count),True,white)
gameDisplay.blit(text, (0,0))

def things(thingx, thingy, thingw, thingh, color):
pygame.draw.rect(gameDisplay, block_color, [thingx, thingy, thingw, thingh])

def car(x,y):
gameDisplay.blit(resized,(x,y))

def text_objects(text, font):
textSurface = font.render(text, True, black)
return textSurface, textSurface.get_rect()

def message_display(text):
largeText = pygame.font.Font(None,75)
TextSurf, TextRect = text_objects(text, largeText)
TextRect.center = ((display_width/2),(display_height/2))
gameDisplay.blit(TextSurf, TextRect)
pygame.display.update()

time.sleep(2)
game_loop()

def crash():
message_display('You Crashed!')



def game_loop():
global block_R
global block_G
global block_B
global block_color

black = (0,0,0)
white = (255,255,255)
red = (255,0,0)
block_R = random.randrange(100,200)
block_G = random.randrange(100,200)
block_B = random.randrange(30,200)

block_color = (block_R,block_G,block_B)

x = (display_width*0.45)
y = (display_height*0.8)
x_change = 0

thing_width = 100
thing_startx = random.randrange(0, display_width-thing_width)
thing_starty = -600
thing_speed = 5
thing_height = 100
dodged = 0
dificuilty = 2
bigger = 15

gameExit = False

while not gameExit:

for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
quit()


if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:

if event.key == pygame.K_RIGHT:
x_change = 50

elif event.key == pygame.K_LEFT:
x_change = -50

if event.type == pygame. KEYUP:
if event.key == pygame.K_LEFT or event.key == pygame.K_RIGHT:
x_change = 0


x += x_change



gameDisplay.fill(back_ground)

# things(thingx, thingy, thingw, thingh, color)
things(thing_startx, thing_starty, thing_width, thing_height, block_color)
thing_starty += thing_speed
car(x,y)
things_dodged(dodged)
if dodged > 34:
you_win()

if x > display_width - car_width or x < 0:
crash()

if thing_starty > display_height:
thing_starty = 0 - thing_height
thing_startx = random.randint(0,(795-int(thing_width)))
dodged += 1
bigger = bigger * 0.9
dificuilty = dificuilty * 0.6
thing_speed += dificuilty
thing_width += bigger



if y < thing_starty+thing_height:
if x > thing_startx and x < thing_startx+thing_width or x+car_width > thing_startx and x+car_width<thing_startx+thing_width:
crash()


pygame.display.update()
clock.tick(60)

begin()
game_loop()
pygame.quit()
quit()


the only parts where i use the font is in message_display() and things_dodged()

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