How can a pygame image be colored?

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Published on 2012-03-31T23:40:30Z Indexed on 2012/03/31 23:43 UTC
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I'm writing a 2d particle system for a game in Pygame[1].

For the particles, I have an image surface loaded from a file -- basically a white primitive drawn over a transparent background.

I'd like the particle engine to emit variously colored particles, but I'm not sure how to tell Pygame to color the surface.

I've looked through what passes for documentation, but I'm having trouble finding anything.

[1] Yeah, I don't really like Pygame, but my course insists I write this project in Python.

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