A short example of Pygame showing an image with a known internet url.
Display an image from the WEB (PyGame)
'''PG_image_url.py
load and display a web image using pygame and io
tested with Python27 and Python34 by vegaseat 10mar2015
'''
import io
import pygame as pg
try:
# Python2
from urllib2 import urlopen
except ImportError:
# Python3
from urllib.request import urlopen
# initialize pygame
pg.init()
# on a webpage right click on the image you want and use Copy image URL
image_url = "http://matplotlib.org/_images/fill_demo.png"
image_str = urlopen(image_url).read()
# create a file object (stream)
image_file = io.BytesIO(image_str)
# (r, g, b) color tuple, values 0 to 255
white = (255, 255, 255)
# create a 600x400 white screen
screen = pg.display.set_mode((600,400), pg.RESIZABLE )
screen.fill(white)
# load the image from a file or stream
image = pg.image.load(image_file)
# draw image, position the image ulc at x=20, y=20
screen.blit(image, (20, 20))
# nothing gets displayed until one updates the screen
pg.display.flip()
# start event loop and wait until
# the user clicks on the window corner x to exit
while True:
for event in pg.event.get():
if event.type == pg.QUIT:
pg.quit()
raise SystemExit
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