pyglet Documentation
pyglet is a cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python,
intended for developing games and other visually rich applications. It supports
windowing, user interface event handling, OpenGL graphics, loading images
and videos, and playing sounds and music. pyglet works on Windows, OS X
and Linux.
Some of the features of pyglet are:
- No external dependencies or installation requirements. For most
application and game requirements, pyglet needs nothing else besides Python,
simplifying distribution and installation.
- Take advantage of multiple windows and multi-monitor desktops. pyglet
allows you to use as many windows as you need, and is fully aware of
multi-monitor setups for use with fullscreen games and applications.
- Load images, sound, music and video in almost any format. pyglet can
optionally use AVbin to play back audio formats such as MP3, OGG/Vorbis and
WMA, and video formats such as DivX, MPEG-2, H.264, WMV and Xvid.
- pyglet is provided under the BSD open-source license, allowing you to
use it for both commercial and other open-source projects with very little
restriction.
- Supports Python 2 and 3. Pick your favorite!
Please join us on the mailing list!
Programming Guide
The pyglet Programming Guide provides in-depth documentation for writing
applications using pyglet. Many topics described here reference the pyglet
API reference, which is listed below.
If this is your first time reading about pyglet, we suggest you start at
Writing a pyglet application.
Development Guide
These documents describe details on how to develop pyglet itself further. Read
these to get a more detailed insight into how pyglet is designed, and how to
help make pyglet even better. Get in touch if you would like to contribute!
Third party libraries
Listed here are a few third party libraries that you might find useful when
developing your project. Please direct any questions to the respective authors.
If you would like to have your library listed here, let us know!
- glooey - An object-oriented GUI library for pyglet
- Every game needs a user interface that matches its look and feel. The purpose of glooey
is to help you make such an interface. Towards this end, glooey provides 7 powerful
placement widgets, a label widget, an image widget, 3 different button widgets, a text
entry widget, a variety of scroll boxes and bars, 4 different dialog box widgets, and a
variety of other miscellaneous widgets. The appearance of any widget can be trivially
customized, and glooey comes with built-in fantasy, puzzle, and 8-bit themes to prove it
(and to help you hit the ground running if your game fits one of those genres).
- PyShaders - Pythonic OpenGL shader wrapper for python
- Pyshaders aims to completely wraps the opengl2.1 shader api in a python module.
Pyshaders provides a pythonic OOP api that hides the lower level (ctypes) calls.
Pyshaders provides a high level api and a low level api, and it can be integrated easily
with existing code because it does not occlude the underlying opengl values.