How to create MS Paint clone with Python and pygame

Question

As I see it, there are two ways to handle mouse events to draw a picture.

The first is to detect when the mouse moves and draw a line to where the mouse is, shown he

Answer 1

Why not do both?

Draw a circle at each endpoint and a line between the two.

EDIT rofl, just couldn't stop myself.

Actually, you don't want to use pygame.draw.line because it cheats. It fills a 1 pixel wide row or column (depending on angle of attack) of pixels. If you do go at a roughly perpendicular angle, 0 deg or 90 deg, this isn't an issue, but at 45's, you'll notice a sort of string bean effect.

The only solution is to draw a circle at every pixel's distance. Here...

import pygame, random

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800,600))

draw_on = False
last_pos = (0, 0)
color = (255, 128, 0)
radius = 10

def roundline(srf, color, start, end, radius=1):
    dx = end[0]-start[0]
    dy = end[1]-start[1]
    distance = max(abs(dx), abs(dy))
    for i in range(distance):
        x = int( start[0]+float(i)/distance*dx)
        y = int( start[1]+float(i)/distance*dy)
        pygame.draw.circle(srf, color, (x, y), radius)

try:
    while True:
        e = pygame.event.wait()
        if e.type == pygame.QUIT:
            raise StopIteration
        if e.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
            color = (random.randrange(256), random.randrange(256), random.randrange(256))
            pygame.draw.circle(screen, color, e.pos, radius)
            draw_on = True
        if e.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONUP:
            draw_on = False
        if e.type == pygame.MOUSEMOTION:
            if draw_on:
                pygame.draw.circle(screen, color, e.pos, radius)
                roundline(screen, color, e.pos, last_pos,  radius)
            last_pos = e.pos
        pygame.display.flip()

except StopIteration:
    pass

pygame.quit()