Aha! Thanks for this info, Greg and Lenard!!
Also, thanks, Lendard, I do think this is worth opening an issue about.
It seems that it is not a .dict() method, but a .dict attribute. It
appears to be almost the equivalent of dir(), lacking the .type entry,
but including the other attributes that matter:
Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Nov 27 2010, 18:30:53) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
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>>> import pygame
>>> ev = pygame.event.Event( pygame.USEREVENT, {'id':'test',
'internal':False} )
>>> dict(ev)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
dict(ev)
TypeError: 'Event' object is not iterable
>>> ev.dict()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
ev.dict()
TypeError: 'dict' object is not callable
>>> ev.__dict__
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>
ev.__dict__
AttributeError: event member not defined
>>> ev.dict
{'internal': False, 'id': 'test'}
>>>