Any way to speed up Python and Pygame?

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Use Psyco, for python2:

import psyco
psyco.full()

Also, enable doublebuffering. For example:

from pygame.locals import *
flags = FULLSCREEN | DOUBLEBUF
screen = pygame.display.set_mode(resolution, flags, bpp)

You could also turn off alpha if you don’t need it:

screen.set_alpha(None)

Instead of flipping the entire screen every time, keep track of the changed areas and only update those. For example, something roughly like this (main loop):

events = pygame.events.get()
for event in events:
    # deal with events
pygame.event.pump()
my_sprites.do_stuff_every_loop()
rects = my_sprites.draw()
activerects = rects + oldrects
activerects = filter(bool, activerects)
pygame.display.update(activerects)
oldrects = rects[:]
for rect in rects:
    screen.blit(bgimg, rect, rect)

Most (all?) drawing functions return a rect.

You can also set only some allowed events, for more speedy event handling:

pygame.event.set_allowed([QUIT, KEYDOWN, KEYUP])

Also, I would not bother with creating a buffer manually and would not use the HWACCEL flag, as I’ve experienced problems with it on some setups.

Using this, I’ve achieved reasonably good FPS and smoothness for a small 2d-platformer.

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