Pyglet

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Pyglet is a library for the Python programming language that provides an object-oriented application programming interface for the creation of games and other multimedia applications.^[1][2] pyglet runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux; it is released under the BSD Licence. pyglet was first created by Alex Holkner.

Features[edit]

Pyglet is written entirely in Python. Images, video, and sound files in a range of formats can be done natively but can also be expanded with the libav and ffmpeg libraries. It requires no external dependencies.^[3]

Text display and formatting

• Rich text formatting (bold, italic, underline, color change, background color, indent, lists) (pyglet.text.formats)
• Built-in layouts to support editable text
• Carets (pyglet.text.caret.Caret)
• HTML support (pyglet.text.layout.IncrementalTextLayout)

Image and sprite work

• Fast image processing and rendering
• Built-in sprites (pyglet.sprite)
• Animated images (*.gif)

Graphics

• OpenGL shaders supported
• Simple built-in shapes (rectangles, circles, triangles) (pyglet.shapes)
• Batched rendering (pyglet.graphics.Batch)
• 3D model rendering

Events and file system

• Resource management (pyglet.resource)
• Clock for processing events and time (pyglet.clock.Clock)
• Window events (pyglet.window.Window)
• Event dispatching (pyglet.event.EventDispatcher)
• Context management

Sprites, text layouts, and text functions are implemented as well. Multi-level lists are supported, and can be made using HTML. Different parts of the displayed document can have different styles. A caret is built-in for support for editing text. It resembles many of the features of a UI text input caret.

Example[edit]

from pyglet.window import Window from pyglet.app import run  window = Window(caption="Hello world!", width=640, height=480)  run() 

In this example, lines 1-2 import the pyglet module's necessary components. Line 4 creates a window, and line 6 calls pyglet to run its event loop. Optionally an update rate (in frames per second) can be specified in a rate parameter.

See also[edit]

• Pygame, another Python game API, a layer over Simple DirectMedia Layer
• Kivy (framework), a Python OpenGL-based UI for multitouch interactions
• Cocos2d
• Panda3D

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Official documentation
• AVbin, the wrapper for libav