pygbag 0.5.0

pygame wasm, package and run python/pygame directly in modern web browsers.

pygbag

Python WebAssembly for everyone ( packager + test server )

Runs python code directly in modern web browsers, including mobile versions.

"your.app.folder" must contain a main.py and its loop must be async aware eg:

import asyncio

# Try explicitly to declare all your globals at once to facilitate compilation later.
COUNT_DOWN = 3

# Do init here and load any assets right now to avoid lag at runtime or network errors.


async def main():
    global COUNT_DOWN

    COUNT_DOWN = 3

    while True:

        # Do your rendering here, note that it's NOT an infinite loop,
        # and it is fired only when VSYNC occurs
        # Usually 1/60 or more times per seconds on desktop, maybe less on some mobile devices

        print(f"""

            Hello[{COUNT_DOWN}] from Python

""")

        await asyncio.sleep(0)  # Very important, and keep it 0

        if not COUNT_DOWN:
            return

        COUNT_DOWN = COUNT_DOWN - 1

# This is the program entry point:
asyncio.run(main())

# Do not add anything from here
# asyncio.run is non-blocking on pygame-wasm

Usage:

pip3 install pygbag --user --upgrade
pygbag your.app.folder

Command help:

pygbag --help your.app.folder

Example :

user@pp /data/git/pygbag $ python3 -m pygbag --help test
 *pygbag 0.5.0*

Serving python files from [/data/git/pygbag/test/build/web]

with no security/performance in mind, i'm just a test tool : don't rely on me
usage: __main__.py [-h] [--bind ADDRESS] [--directory DIRECTORY] [--PYBUILD PYBUILD] [--app_name APP_NAME] [--ume_block UME_BLOCK] [--can_close CAN_CLOSE] [--cache CACHE] [--package PACKAGE] [--title TITLE] [--version VERSION] [--build] [--html] [--no_opt]
                   [--archive] [--icon ICON] [--cdn CDN] [--template TEMPLATE] [--ssl SSL] [--port [PORT]]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --bind ADDRESS        Specify alternate bind address [default: localhost]
  --directory DIRECTORY
                        Specify alternative directory [default:/data/git/pygbag/test/build/web]
  --PYBUILD PYBUILD     Specify python version [default:3.11]
  --app_name APP_NAME   Specify user facing name of application [default:test]
  --ume_block UME_BLOCK
                        Specify wait for user media engagement before running [default:1]
  --can_close CAN_CLOSE
                        Specify if window will ask confirmation for closing [default:0]
  --cache CACHE         md5 based url cache directory
  --package PACKAGE     package name, better make it unique
  --title TITLE         App nice looking name
  --version VERSION     override prebuilt version path [default:0.5.0]
  --build               build only, do not run test server
  --html                build as html with embedded assets (pygame-script)
  --no_opt              turn off assets optimizer
  --archive             make build/web.zip archive for itch.io
  --icon ICON           icon png file 32x32 min should be favicon.png
  --cdn CDN             web site to cache locally [default:https://pygame-web.github.io/archives/0.5/]
  --template TEMPLATE   index.html template [default:default.tmpl]
  --ssl SSL             enable ssl with server.pem and key.pem
  --port [PORT]         Specify alternate port [default: 8000]

Now navigate to http://localhost:8000 with a modern Browser.

Use http://localhost:8000#debug for getting a terminal and a sized down canvas.

For pygame-script go to http://localhost:8000/test.html for a game folder named "test".

V8 based browsers are preferred ( chromium/brave/chrome ... ) starting with 81.0.4044 ( android 4.4 ). Because they set baseline restrictions on WebAssembly loading. Using them while testing ensure proper operation on all browsers.

NOTES:

• first load will be slower, because setting up local cache from cdn to avoid useless network transfer for getting pygame and cpython prebuilts.

• each time there's a change in the code or template you must run pygbag your.app.folder but cache is not destroyed.

• if you want to reset prebuilts cache, remove the build/web-cache folder in your.app.folder

BUILDING:

Pygbag is not only a python module, and rebuilding all the toolchain can be quite hard.

https://github.com/pygame-web/python-wasm-sdk <= build CPython (not pyodide)

The default is to build only pygame, but feel free to fork and add yours.

So read/use pygbag CI to see how to build pygame + the C loader (pymain) and how it is linked it to libpython + libpygame.

https://github.com/pygame-web/pygbag

Default prebuilts (pygame) used by pygbag are stored on github from the repo https://github.com/pygame-web/archives under versioned folders.

TEST REPL:

[interactive repl](http://pygame-web.github.io/showroom/python310.html?-d&noapp#pygame-scripts/hello.py%20arg1%20arg2)

ADDING STATIC MODULES:

see in package.d directory and use vendor/vendor.sh

SUPPORT FOR STATIC MODULES :

see in package.d/<vendor>/README.md for module <vendor> specific support

vendor readme (if applicable)

GENERIC PYGBAG SUPPORT OR PYGAME MODULE:

for generic help around pygbag

GENERIC CPYTHON WASM:

python.org forum