pygame: transparency question

[Ian Kelly]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Scott Siegler <scott.siegler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a surface that I load an image onto.  During a collision I would like to clear out the images of both surfaces that collided and show the score.  Is there a function call to clear a surface with an image?
>
> One way I was thinking was to fill the surface with a color and then set that color as the colorkey.  Is this the only way or does pygame have a function to make the whole surface transparent?

If you want the entire surface to be completely transparent, then just
don't blit it onto the screen in the first place.  Blit a different
surface with the score drawn onto it instead.