Before diving in to this tutorial, first follow the setup instructions for your PiTFT. Make sure to choose the correct guide particularly forresistive vscapacitive displays and carefully follow the section onPiTFT Pygame Tips - in particular you really need SDL 1.2!

You can also grab all the tutorial source code from git:

git clone https://github.com/jerbly/tutorials.git

git clone https://github.com/jerbly/tutorials.git

To test the display you can run through these steps in the python console:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo pythonPython 2.7.3 (default, Mar 18 2014, 05:13:23)[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import pygame>>> import os>>> os.putenv('SDL_FBDEV', '/dev/fb1')>>> pygame.init()(6, 0)>>> lcd = pygame.display.set_mode((320, 240))>>> lcd.fill((255,0,0))<rect(0, 0, 320, 240)>>>> pygame.display.update()>>> pygame.mouse.set_visible(False)1>>> lcd.fill((0,0,0))<rect(0, 0, 320, 240)>>>> pygame.display.update()

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo pythonPython 2.7.3 (default, Mar 18 2014, 05:13:23)[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import pygame>>> import os>>> os.putenv('SDL_FBDEV', '/dev/fb1')>>> pygame.init()(6, 0)>>> lcd = pygame.display.set_mode((320, 240))>>> lcd.fill((255,0,0))<rect(0, 0, 320, 240)>>>> pygame.display.update()>>> pygame.mouse.set_visible(False)1>>> lcd.fill((0,0,0))<rect(0, 0, 320, 240)>>>> pygame.display.update()

you may also need to try

os.putenv('SDL_VIDEODRIVER', 'fbcon') # Force PyGame to PiTFT

in the beginning, if pygame isn't appearing

You can also run this test (with a one second sleep) from the pygamelcd project:

sudo python test1.py

sudo python test1.py

OK now you're ready!