pygnetic — Easy networking in Pygame

pygnetic is a library designed to help in the development of network games and applications in Pygame.

Features

• Two approaches to handle network events

  • generating events in pygame queue
  • using handler classes

• Efficient packaging of data through the message system

• Support for multiple network and serialization libraries

Contents

• pygnetic Package
  • client Module
  • connection Module
  • event Module
  • handler Module
  • message Module
  • server Module
• Small FAQ
• Glossary
• Examples
• License

Installation

pygnetic can be installed with

• pip command – pip install pygnetic
• windows installer
• python setup.py install command run from directory of source distribution

Optional requirements

• Message Pack (recommended)
• pyenet

Resources

• Package on PyPI – http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygnetic
• Repository on Bitbucket – https://bitbucket.org/bluex/pygnetic
• Documentation – http://pygnetic.readthedocs.org
• Development blog – http://pygame-networking.blogspot.com

Credits

pygnetic is under development by Szymon Wróblewski <bluex0@gmail.com> as GSoC 2012 project and mentored by René Dudfield <renesd@gmail.com>.

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index