Welcome to PySDL2’s documentation!

PySDL2 is a wrapper around the SDL2 library and as such similar to the discontinued PySDL project. In contrast to PySDL, it has no licensing restrictions, nor does it rely on C code, but uses ctypes instead.

Getting Started

• Installing PySDL2
  • Using pip
  • Installing from source
  • Prerequisites
• Integrating PySDL2
  • Bundling SDL2 with pysdl2-dll
  • Bundling SDL2 without pysdl2-dll
  • Using different SDL2 versions
  • Known problems with SDL2 binaries
• PySDL2 FAQ
  • On importing…
  • Using…
  • How do I…
  • Font handling…
• Learn to fly - the tutorials
  • Hello World
  • The Pong Game
  • PySDL2 for Pygamers

API Reference

• API reference
  • sdl2 - SDL2 library wrapper
  • sdl2.ext - Helpful wrappers for the SDL2 API
  • sdl2.sdlttf - Python bindings for SDL_ttf
  • sdl2.sdlimage - Python bindings for SDL_image
  • sdl2.sdlmixer - Python bindings for SDL_mixer
  • sdl2.sdlgfx - Python bindings for SDL2_gfx

Project Information

• Release News
• Todo list for PySDL2
• License

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page