OpenGL and Python

**jesuisbenjamin** · July 1st, 2010

Hello there,

I am interested in learning to work with OpenGL (i'd like to be able to work on desktop environment eg. applets, witgets etc.)
So far i have learnt how to use python only, i also learnt basis of Tkinter.
I have found complete books on OpenGl but it mostly assumes the reader works in C. Do you know of any comprehensive tutorial/book which could help me learn to use OpenGl with Python? (and recent i.e. not NeHe as i have read it's old stuff and not recommended to begin with.)

Thanks.
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**jesuisbenjamin** · July 5th, 2010

Hi there,

Anyone knows a pyOpenGL tutorial that's written for Python and that is up to date?

Thanks.
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**oedipuss** · July 5th, 2010

Opengl is really not that different in python .
Get a bit familiar with something like pygame to get window creation and input easily out of the way, and just experiment with the C tutorials.

Usually the only difference is that some calls are a bit more 'pythonic' .
This should help identifying such differences.