SVG rendering in a PyGame application

Question

In a pyGame application, I would like to render resolution-free GUI widgets described in SVG.

What tool and/or library can I use to reach this goal ?

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Answer 1

The last comment crashed when I ran it because svg.render_cairo() is expecting a cairo context and not a cairo surface. I created and tested the following function and it seems to run fine on my system.

import array,cairo, pygame,rsvg

def loadsvg(filename,surface,position):
    WIDTH = surface.get_width()
    HEIGHT = surface.get_height()
    data = array.array('c', chr(0) * WIDTH * HEIGHT * 4)
    cairosurface = cairo.ImageSurface.create_for_data(data, cairo.FORMAT_ARGB32, WIDTH, HEIGHT, WIDTH * 4)
    svg = rsvg.Handle(filename)
    svg.render_cairo(cairo.Context(cairosurface))
    image = pygame.image.frombuffer(data.tostring(), (WIDTH, HEIGHT),"ARGB")
    surface.blit(image, position) 

WIDTH = 800
HEIGHT = 600
pygame.init()
window = pygame.display.set_mode((WIDTH, HEIGHT))
screen = pygame.display.get_surface()

loadsvg("test.svg",screen,(0,0))

pygame.display.flip() 

clock = pygame.time.Clock()
while True:
    clock.tick(15)
    event = pygame.event.get()
    for e in event:
        if e.type == 12:
            raise SystemExit