Embedding a Pygame window into a Tkinter or WxPython frame

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(Note this solution does not work on Windows systems with Pygame 2.
See Using ‘SDL_WINDOWID’ does not embed pygame display correctly into another application #1574. You can currently download older versions of Pygame here.)

According to this SO question and the accepted answer, the simplest way to do this would be to use an SDL drawing frame.

This code is the work of SO user Alex Sallons.

import os
import pygame
import Tkinter as tk
from Tkinter import *

root = tk.Tk()
embed = tk.Frame(root, width = 500, height = 500) #creates embed frame for pygame window
embed.grid(columnspan = (600), rowspan = 500) # Adds grid
embed.pack(side = LEFT) #packs window to the left
buttonwin = tk.Frame(root, width = 75, height = 500)
buttonwin.pack(side = LEFT)
os.environ['SDL_WINDOWID'] = str(embed.winfo_id())
os.environ['SDL_VIDEODRIVER'] = 'windib'
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((500,500))
screen.fill(pygame.Color(255,255,255))
pygame.display.init()
pygame.display.update()

def draw():
    pygame.draw.circle(screen, (0,0,0), (250,250), 125)
    pygame.display.update()

button1 = Button(buttonwin,text="Draw",  command=draw)
button1.pack(side=LEFT)
root.update()

while True:
    pygame.display.update()
    root.update()

This code is cross-platform, as long as the windib SDL_VIDEODRIVER line is omitted on non Windows systems. I would suggest

# [...]
import platform
if platform.system == "Windows":
    os.environ['SDL_VIDEODRIVER'] = 'windib'
# [...]

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