dispmanx 0.1.0

Libraty providing a buffer interface to your Raspberry Pi's GPU layer. Usable with pygame, PIL and other graphics libraries.

DispmanX Bindings for Python

Documentation | Python Package Index

Usage

Install with pip,

pip install dispmanx

Then try out this sample program using pygame,

from random import randint
import pygame
from dispmanx import DispmanX

def random_color_with_alpha():
    return tuple(randint(0, 0xFF) for _ in range(3)) + (randint(0x44, 0xFF),)

display = DispmanX(pixel_format="RGBA")
surface = pygame.image.frombuffer(display.buffer, display.size, display.pixel_format)
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

for _ in range(20):
    surface.fill(random_color_with_alpha())
    display.update()
    clock.tick(2)

Next stop: the project's documentation.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.

Final Note

...and remember kids, have fun!