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Pygame Built-in Functions

1. Initialization and Quitting Functions:


- pygame.init(): Initializes all imported Pygame modules.
- pygame.quit(): Uninitializes all Pygame modules, closing windows and freeing up
resources.

2. Display Functions:
- pygame.display.set_mode(size): Initializes a window or screen for display.
- pygame.display.flip(): Updates the entire screen.
- pygame.display.update(): Updates portions of the screen.
- pygame.display.set_caption(title): Sets the window's title.
- pygame.display.get_surface(): Gets the current display surface object.

3. Event Functions:
- pygame.event.get(): Returns a list of all events currently in the event queue.
- pygame.event.poll(): Retrieves a single event from the queue.
- pygame.event.wait(): Waits for an event to appear in the queue.
- pygame.event.clear(): Clears the event queue.
- pygame.event.post(event): Adds an event to the queue.

4. Drawing Functions:
- pygame.draw.rect(surface, color, rect): Draws a rectangle.
- pygame.draw.circle(surface, color, center, radius): Draws a circle.
- pygame.draw.line(surface, color, start_pos, end_pos): Draws a line.
- pygame.draw.polygon(surface, color, points): Draws a polygon.

5. Surface Functions:
- pygame.Surface(size): Creates a new Surface.
- surface.fill(color): Fills the entire surface with a solid color.
- surface.blit(source, dest): Draws one Surface onto another.
- surface.get_at(pos): Gets the color of the pixel at the pos.
- surface.set_at(pos, color): Sets the color of the pixel at pos.

6. Time Functions:
- pygame.time.Clock(): Creates an object to help control the frame rate.
- clock.tick(framerate): Limits the program to run at a maximum of framerate.
- pygame.time.get_ticks(): Returns the number of milliseconds since Pygame was
initialized.
- pygame.time.delay(milliseconds): Pauses the program for a given number of
milliseconds.

7. Font Functions:
- pygame.font.Font(file, size): Loads a font from the specified file.
- font.render(text, antialias, color): Renders the given text as a Surface.

8. Image Functions:
- pygame.image.load(filename): Loads an image from a file.
- pygame.image.save(surface, filename): Saves a Surface to an image file.

9. Sound and Music Functions:


- pygame.mixer.Sound(file): Loads a sound file and returns a Sound object.
- sound.play(): Plays the Sound object.
- pygame.mixer.music.load(file): Loads a music file for playback.
- pygame.mixer.music.play(loops): Plays the loaded music file.
- pygame.mixer.music.stop(): Stops the currently playing music.

10. Joystick Functions:


- pygame.joystick.init(): Initializes the joystick module.
- pygame.joystick.Joystick(id): Creates a joystick object with the specified id.
- joystick.get_numaxes(): Gets the number of axes on the joystick.
- joystick.get_button(button): Gets the state of a particular button on the
joystick.

11. Key and Mouse Functions:


- pygame.key.get_pressed(): Returns the state of all keyboard keys.
- pygame.mouse.get_pos(): Gets the current position of the mouse.
- pygame.mouse.get_pressed(): Gets the current state of the mouse buttons.

12. Rect Functions:


- pygame.Rect(left, top, width, height): Creates a new Rect object.
- rect.collidepoint(x, y): Checks if a point is inside the rect.
- rect.colliderect(rect): Checks if this rect collides with another.

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