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4 Options Considered

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Pygame
LGPLApr 19, 2018
pyglet
BSDDec 5, 2017
PyCairo
–Jul 16, 2015
SFML for Python
–Oct 22, 2017
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Pygame

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Rich platform support

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Support of Linux, Windows, BSDs, and Mac OS X makes pygame a great option for any user. Installation can be done via package manager on Linux and by binary installers for OS X and Windows.
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Great documentation and tutorials

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With a wealth of tutorials, examples and instruction on the API there should be little to no extra support needed to get started.
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Does not scale well to large games

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Pygame does well with small games and hobby projects, but to use it and scale it out for a large project will result in a lot of performance issues.
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pyglet

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3D support

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Since pyglet is so tightly woven with OpenGL it allows the support of drawing in 3D.
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Cross-platform

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Works with Windows, Linux, and OS X.
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Written in pure Python

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A small advantage, but being a core Python developer, it may be the best to stick to the roots and develop with pyglet as it is able to compile using other Python interpreters.
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Small community/popularity

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There is a decent amount of documentation and API to go along with pyglet, but in terms of community support there seems to be very little.
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PyCairo

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Good tutorials and documentation

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With a plethora of documentation on the core Cairo library and the bindings for Python, users will be able to turn to the documentation, API, or translate examples from other languages to work with PyCairo.
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Supports rich set of platforms

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Support includes Linux, BSDs, Microsoft Windows, and OS X. With all these supported platforms the PyCairo library will be able to complete the job.
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No 3D support

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Due to PyCairo being built off the 2D graphics library cairo, there is no 3D support for any graphics.
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SFML for Python

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