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Recently I downloaded a game off pydev and the imports for it look like this below.

import pygame
from pygame.locals import *

However I have only ever created games by calling the in this way.

import pygame
import player
import enemy

I have called in the class one by one.

What does the lines of code at the top do? does it call all of his classes in?

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This question would belong to stackoverflow, but I am afraid it does not seem like you even did any basic research. – Sam Hocevar Jan 31 '12 at 10:45
@SamHocevar: as it is it would belong to SO, but now he is also asking what pygame.locals does, which belongs here. (even there he did no research, though) – Lohoris Jan 31 '12 at 10:51

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It imports all public objects from pygame.locals into your module, so that you can use them directly instead of having to refer to them as pygame.locals.whatever.

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Thanks for your answer, but what does locals mean exactly? like the classes? – Richard Gibbons Jan 31 '12 at 10:42
@RichardGibbons: pygame.org/docs/ref/locals.html --> 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 *'. – Lohoris Jan 31 '12 at 10:47

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