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Rendering an animated GIF in pygame

• Software Development

  from PIL import Image
  import pygame
  import pygame.image


  def create_images():
      images = []
      for i in range(6):
          surface = pygame.Surface((256, 256))
          surface.fill((255 - i * 50, 255, i * 50))
          image = Image.frombytes(
              "RGBA", (256, 256), pygame.image.tostring(surface, "RGBA", False)
          )
          images.append(image)
      return images


  images = create_images()
  images[0].save(
      "animated.gif",
      format="GIF",
      append_images=images[1:],
      save_all=True,
      duration=300,
      loop=0,
  )
  return "animated.gif"