How to display text in pygame

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I can t figure out to display text in pygame  I know I can t use print like in regular python IDLE but i dont know how    import pygame  sys from pygame locals import    BLACK     0  0  0  WHITE    255  255  255  GREEN    0  255  0  RED     255  0  0   pygame init   size    700  500  screen   pygame display set mode size   DISPLAYSURF   pygame display set mode  400  300   pygame display set caption  P Earth   while 1    main game loop     for event in pygame event get            if event type    QUIT                         pygame display update     import time  direction      print  Welcome to Earth   pygame draw rect screen  RED   55 500 10 5   0  time sleep 1    THIS is only the beginning part of the whole program  If there is a format that will allow me to show the text I type in the pygame window that d be great  So instead of using print I would use something else  But i don t know what that something else is    When I run my program in pygame it doesnt show anything  I want the program to run in the pygame window instead of it just running in idle

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You can create a surface with text on it. For this take a look at this short example:

pygame.font.init() # you have to call this at the start, 
                   # if you want to use this module.
myfont = pygame.font.SysFont('Comic Sans MS', 30)

This creates a new object on which you can call the render method.

textsurface = myfont.render('Some Text', False, (0, 0, 0))

This creates a new surface with text already drawn onto it. At the end you can just blit the text surface onto your main screen.

screen.blit(textsurface,(0,0))

Bear in mind, that everytime the text changes, you have to recreate the surface again, to see the new text.

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Here is my answer       def draw text text  font name  size  color  x  y  align  quot nw quot            font   pg font Font font name  size          text surface   font render text  True  color          text rect   text surface get rect           if align     quot nw quot               text rect topleft    x  y          if align     quot ne quot               text rect topright    x  y          if align     quot sw quot               text rect bottomleft    x  y          if align     quot se quot               text rect bottomright    x  y          if align     quot n quot               text rect midtop    x  y          if align     quot s quot               text rect midbottom    x  y          if align     quot e quot               text rect midright    x  y          if align     quot w quot               text rect midleft    x  y          if align     quot center quot               text rect center    x  y          screen blit text surface  text rect   Of course  you ll need to import pygame  a font and a screen  but this is just a def to add on to the rest of the code  and then call  quot draw text quot

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When displaying I sometimes make a new file called Funk  This will have the font  size etc  This is the code for the class   import pygame  def text to screen screen  text  x  y  size   50              color    200  000  000   font type    data fonts orecrusherexpand ttf        try           text   str text          font   pygame font Font font type  size          text   font render text  True  color          screen blit text   x  y        except Exception  e          print  Font Error  saw it coming          raise e   Then when that has been imported when I want to display text taht updates E G score I do   Funk text to screen screen   Text  0   format score   xpos  ypos    If it is just normal text that isn t being updated   Funk text to screen screen   Text   xpos  ypos    You may notice  0  on the first example  That is because when  format whatever  is used that is what will be updated  If you have something like Score then target score you d do  0  for score then  1  for target score then  format score  targetscore

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There s also the pygame freetype module which is more modern  works with more fonts and offers additional functionality   Create a font object with pygame freetype SysFont   or pygame freetype Font if the font is inside of your game directory   You can render the text either with the render method similarly to the old pygame font Font render or directly onto the target surface with render to   import pygame import pygame freetype    Import the freetype module    pygame init   screen   pygame display set mode  800  600   GAME FONT   pygame freetype Font  your font ttf   24  running    True  while running      for event in pygame event get            if event type    pygame QUIT              running   False      screen fill  255 255 255         You can use  render  and then blit the text surface         text surface  rect   GAME FONT render  Hello World     0  0  0       screen blit text surface   40  250         or just  render to  the target surface      GAME FONT render to screen   40  350    Hello World     0  0  0        pygame display flip    pygame quit

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This is slighly more OS independent way     do this init somewhere import pygame pygame init   screen   pygame display set mode  640  480   font   pygame font Font pygame font get default font    36     now print the text text surface   font render  Hello world   antialias True  color  0  0  0   screen blit text surface  dest  0 0

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