Importing and Initializing

In this lesson, you’ll start writing the code for your game. To start, create a new file named sky_dodge.py. Your first step will be importing pygame, and then you’ll also need to initialize it. This allows pygame to connect its abstractions to your specific hardware:

 1# Import the pygame module
 2import pygame
 3
 4# Import pygame.locals for easier access to key coordinates
 5# Updated to conform to flake8 and black standards
 6from pygame.locals import (
 7    K_UP,
 8    K_DOWN,
 9    K_LEFT,
10    K_RIGHT,
11    K_ESCAPE,
12    KEYDOWN,
13    QUIT,
14)
15
16# Initialize pygame
17pygame.init()

For more information about the local constants, check out the pygame documentation. For more information about the Flake8 and Black coding formatters, check out the following resources:

• Flake8
• Black: The Uncompromising Code Formatter