[pygame] pygame performance

[Marcelo de Moraes Serpa]

Hello list!

I used to use Blitz Basic to develop games some time ago. Now, I want to play with the wonderful world of game development again. I've found python to be a extremelly elegant, powerful and easy to use language, so, pygame seems to fit perfectly for what I'd like to do. However, I've seen some games made with pygame and found that their overall rendering speed is quite slow if you compare to other languages (Blitz Basic is actually quite fast). Maybe it was an isolated issue but I'd really like to know from more experinced developers on the performance of python/pygame.

Thanks in advance,

Marcelo.