Running Pygame Turbo in IDLE and other IDEs

Added in version 1.2.

Pygame Turbo is usually run using a command such as:

pgtrun my_program.py

Certain programs, such as integrated development environments like IDLE and Edublocks, will only run python, not pgtrun.

Pygame Turbo includes a way of writing a full Python program that can be run using python. To do it, put

import pgtrun

as the very first line of the Pygame Turbo program, and put

pgtrun.go()

as the very last line.

Example

Here is a Pygame Turbo program that draws a circle. You can run this by pasting it into IDLE:

import pgtrun


WIDTH = 800
HEIGHT = 600

def draw():
    screen.clear()
    screen.draw.circle((400, 300), 30, 'white')


pgtrun.go()