Welcome to pysdl2-cffi’s documentation!
pysdl2-cffi is a Python wrapper for SDL2 written using cffi, featuring:
- A cffi + dlopen interface to the underlying SDL2 libraries.
- Automatically generated, consistent helper functions for SDL2, SDL_image,
SDL_mixer, and SDL_ttf that hide most allocation and dereferencing.
- Useful docstrings on every function, including the C function signature and
(for SDL2 only) the library’s original doxygen documentation reformatted as
Sphinx restructured text.
- A small collection of libSDL2’s original example / test programs converted
to Python using Eric S. Raymond’s ctopy.
The goal is to provide a flat, consistent, faithful-to-C binding with some
more-Pythonic renaming and conveniences.
This wrapper won’t contain anything that doesn’t directly translate to part of
the library’s API. The goal is to be a dependency for something like pygame,
not a replacement.
This library should be compatible with Linux, OSX and Windows.
This library is licensed under the GPLv2 or (at your option) any later
version. Alternatively a commercial license can be purchased from the
author for a nominal fee.
Install with pip, or download from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysdl2-cffi
Source hosted at https://bitbucket.org/dholth/pysdl2-cffi
Documentation hosted at https://pythonhosted.org/pysdl2-cffi
Changelog
0.7.0
- Struct wrappers now expose all the attributes of the C-level struct as
properties. Great for tinkering, as the property names can now be
inspected interactively.
- Struct wrappers no longer pass all attribute access through
getattr/setattr. Arbitrary data can be attached to the struct wrappers
as is customary in Python.
- Fix a capitalization error for the “classy” API to conform to the general
binding rules. ob.gL_Function is now ob.GL_Function.
0.6.0
- Windows is now supported! You must manually download the SDL2 dll’s and
place them on PATH set PATH=%PATH%;C:\users\me\SDL2Dir but pysdl2-cffi
will attempt to load the Windows .dll as well as the Unix .so.
0.5.1
- Enums are no longer wrapped in (nonexistent) classes
- Python 2 can also pass Unicode where char* is required; automatically
encoded to utf-8.
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