RE: [pygame] Exact meaning of "sprite"

[Kris Schnee <kschnee@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been going about doing sprite code in an unusual way for my own 
purposes. Does it make any sense?

Since I want a miniature physics sim handling events like collisions and 
gravity, without being locked into a particular graphics system, the 
main benefit of Pygame's standard Sprite class doesn't seem to apply: 
easy collision detection. I want collisions to be based on the official 
coordinates of the characters, rather than the pixel coordinates of 
their images on screen. So, I've built my own Sprite class. Am I right 
in seeing that the main purposes of the standard class are the collision 
detection and the ability to do groups (mostly for the same purpose)?

If nothing else, I've got useful code for chopping up a sprite sheet 
into animation frames referenced by number, so maybe I'll put that in 
the Cookbook.

Kris