PMMA (Python Multi-Media API)

PMMA is a Python module targeted at helping you build applications in the Python programming language. It does this by providing its own tools covering areas like 2D graphics, noise generation, audio and video playback, event handling, text rendering and much more. The API has two fundamental goals; to make application development in Python easier, whilst also focusing on improving the performance and efficiency of the end result. The API is also being engineered with compatibility with other python modules, like Pygame, PIL and Numpy and is ideal for prototyping, application development, simulations, graphics intensive tasks and game development.

Contents

• Development Progress
• Installation
• Build Guide
• Troubleshooting
• Credits
• About

Development Progress

We are currently working on the next major update to PMMA, version 5.x.x. This update features a complete API rework with a significant proportion being re-written in C++ for a significant performance and efficiency improvement. This major update will also introduce all the features lacking from previous iterations of PMMA, including text rendering, aggregated events for text input and improvements to the accuracy and variety of procedural noise generation. If you want to check out our current progress list, you can find it here: Progress on PMMA 5

Installation

You can install the latest version of PMMA from PyPi using the command: `pip install pmma' or you can head over to the website here: PMMA on PyPi to select a custom version to install.

Requirements

In order to install PMMA 5 and newer, you must ensure you meet the following criteria:

Note: If your platform is not listed here then you can attempt to build your own version of PMMA using our build guide!

For older versions of PMMA, there are no hardware requirements.

If you encounter any issues or problems then check out our troubleshooting page.

Credits

PMMA is made possible thanks to the following:

C/C++ projects (used in PMMA 5 and newer)

• LIBZ - 1.3.1 - https://github.com/madler/zlib
• Libpng - 1.6.49 - https://github.com/glennrp/libpng
• GLFW - 3.4 - https://github.com/glfw/glfw
• FreeType - 2-13-3 - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype
• GLM - 0.9.3.2 - https://github.com/icaven/glm
• GLAD - 2.0.8 - https://github.com/Dav1dde/glad
• HarfBuzz - 11.2.1 - https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz
• flat_hash_map - N/A - https://github.com/skarupke/flat_hash_map
• STB - N/A - https://github.com/nothings/stb

Python projects (used in PMMA 1 and newer)

• PyAV - latest - https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV
• Cython - latest - https://github.com/cython/cython
• GetOSTheme - latest - https://github.com/FHPythonUtils/GetOSTheme
• MoviePy - latest - https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy
• Num2Words - latest - https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/num2words
• Pedalboard - latest - https://github.com/spotify/pedalboard
• Pillow - latest - https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
• Pprofile - latest - https://github.com/vpelletier/pprofile
• Psutil - latest - https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil
• PyADL - latest - https://github.com/nicolargo/pyadl
• Pyrr - latest - https://github.com/adamlwgriffiths/Pyrr
• Requests - latest - https://github.com/psf/requests
• Send2Trash - latest - https://github.com/arsenetar/send2trash
• SoundDevice - latest - https://github.com/spatialaudio/python-sounddevice/
• SoundFile - latest - https://github.com/bastibe/python-soundfile
• Waiting - latest - https://github.com/vmalloc/waiting
• Watchdog - latest - https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/
• PyWin32 - latest - https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32
• WMI - latest - https://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/

NONE of the projects mentioned above are owned or maintained by PycraftDeveloper the maker of this repository, who would also like to say a big thank you to all the teams working on these projects!

You can check out our licenses and the licenses of all the C/C++ projects PMMA uses as standard here or on your installed version of PMMA (version 5 or later) under pmma/licenses.

Note: If you spot a problem in our licensing or distribution of third party dependencies please raise the problem as an issue here with the title-prefix: 'LICENSING: ' and we will respond to these problems as soon as possible. Thanks!

About

We have worked on numerous large applications using the Python programming language. Most notably Pycraft which is our flagship project, an OpenGL based game using Python. Every time we write these large projects, we often find ourselves writing the same utility programs - which are small programs that help to eliminate complexity in our larger program files. So we decided to combine all of these utility programs into this project, PMMA which is intended then to make writing these larger applications easier as we don't need to keep re-using the same utility programs. The benefits don't stop there though as we are also ensuring this API is as fast and efficient as possible.

Please note that PMMA is currently in a developmental state, meaning that the API is subject to change - we are hoping to remove this warning and improve backwards compatibility in PMMA 6.