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:mod:pygame.locals

.. module:: pygame.locals :synopsis: pygame constants

| :sl:pygame constants

This module contains various constants used by pygame. Its contents are automatically placed in the pygame module namespace. However, an application can use pygame.locals to include only the pygame constants with a from pygame.locals import *.

Detailed descriptions of the various constants can be found throughout the pygame documentation. Here are the locations of some of them.

• The :mod:pygame.display module contains flags like FULLSCREEN used by :func:pygame.display.set_mode.
• The :mod:pygame.event module contains the various event types.
• The :mod:pygame.key module lists the keyboard constants and modifiers (K_* and MOD_*) relating to the key and mod attributes of the KEYDOWN and KEYUP events.
• The :mod:pygame.time module defines TIMER_RESOLUTION.

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