Pygame

The Pygame project allows Python code to create excellent games. It provides sound and graphics support, while handling keyboard, mouse, and joystick input.

SDL

Pygame uses the excellent SDL library to do most of it's hard work. SDL provides basic support for graphics and sound. It is usually used with addon libraries like SDL_image, SDL_mixer, and SDL_ttf to do more advanced image, sound, and text.

Python

Python is a simple programming language that can be used for any type of project. Unlike simple scripting languages, Python has the features you need to create full applications, amazing web servers, and more.