In reply to this post by Paul Vincent Craven Sprite groups act more like sets unless you are using a OrderedGroup subclass (which uses a list instead of a dict for sprite membership). In that case, I think it is appropriate that "add" is used instead of "append".



In any case, groups are not lists, so I would just impress onto your students that there is a difference. Groups are more like a collection of things, generally unordered, while lists are ordered. It may be a good time to introduce them to how hashing algorithms work, and the fundamentals of sets and dictionaries.

In any case, groups are not lists, so I would just impress onto your students that there is a difference. Groups are more like a collection of things, generally unordered, while lists are ordered. It may be a good time to introduce them to how hashing algorithms work, and the fundamentals of sets and dictionaries.

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One thing I always would have liked is if sprite lists acted like lists. In particular, it has always been annoying to teach students to use 'append' for most lists, but 'add' for sprite lists. It would be nice if there was an alias such that 'append' worked.

Paul Vincent Craven



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Hello,



as per docs/howto_release_pygame.txt we are declaring a new release coming soon.



as per docs/howto_release_pygame.txt we are declaring a new release coming soon. I've already asked on the open pull requests some days ago, but if there's anything that *needs* to go in, there's a few days left before we declare a feature freeze.



I guess that there's not much that will block a release at this point. However it's been a looooong time between releases, so I don't think it hurts to wait a few more days. If you have something that might take longer, please get in touch and we can discuss it.



If I don't hear anything in a few more days we will do a release candidate, and try to get more widespread testing. If there are any blocking issues, then will might do another N release candidates. I expect this to take two weeks.



To discuss anything related to the release please use this issue:





If you already want to help test, please try out:

pip install pygame





best regards,

To discuss anything related to the release please use this issue: https://bitbucket.org/pygame/p ygame/issues/107/pygame-192-re lease best regards, On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:56 AM, René Dudfieldwrote:

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Paul Vincent Cravenwrote:

