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Watch the live stream: Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Datadog: pythonbytes.fm/datadog Special guest: Dean Langsam Brian #1: A Better Pygame Mainloop Glyph Doing some game programming is a great way to work on coding for early devs (and experienced devs). pygame is a popular package for writing games in Python But… the normal example of a main loop, which listens for events and dispatches actions based on events, has some problems: it’s got a while 1: that wastes power, too much busy waiting looks bad, due to “screen tearing” which is writing to a screen while your in the middle of drawing it This post discusses the problems, and walks through to an async main loop that creates a better gaming experience. Michael #2: awesome sqlalchemy A few notable ones SQLAlchemy-Continuum: Versioning and auditing extension for SQLAlchemy. SQLAlchemy-Utc: SQLAlchemy type to store aware datetime.datetime values. SQLAlchemy-Utils: Various utility functions, new data types and helpers for SQLAlchem