Object-Oriented Python

5 Introduction to Pygame

The Python language was designed to handle text input and text output. It provides the ability to get text from and send text to the user, a file, and the internet. The core language, however, has no way of dealing with more modern concepts such as windows, mouse clicks, sounds, and so on. So, what if you want to use Python to create something more state-of-the-art than a text-based program? In this chapter I’ll introduce pygame, a free open source external package that was designed to extend Python to allow programmers to build game programs. You can also use pygame to build other kinds of interactive programs with ...