i seem to have a conceptual misunderstanding of the surface and rect object in pygame.

I currently observe these objects this way:

Surface

• Just the loaded image

rect

• the 'hard' representation of the ingame object (sprite). Used for simplifying object moment and collision detection

sprite

• rect and surface grouped together

What i want to do is rotate my sprite. The only available method i found for rotation is pygame.transform.rotate.

How do i rotate the rectangle, or even better, the whole sprite?

Below is the image of how i visualize this problem.