This little Pygame program paints the Rainbow Flag, as used by the LGBT movement. It illustrates:
- Importing the Pygame library
- RGB colours in hexadecimal
- Python’s for loop using the enumerate() function
- Filling a rectangular area in Pygame
- Updating display with flip()
- Saving the image
''' RainbowFlag.py Author: Alan Richmond, Python3.codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBT_movement) ''' import pygame cols = ['#ff0000','#ff8000','#ffff00','#008000','#0000ff','#a000c0'] w, h = 1000, 618 # width, height y = h/6 # width per stripe d = pygame.display.set_mode((w,h)) for i, c in enumerate(cols): d.fill(pygame.Color(c),rect=(0,i*y,w,y*(i+1))) pygame.display.flip() pygame.image.save(d,'RainbowFlag.png')