What happened to Python's rect class?

On a Google Search, I found this article:

http://docs.python.org/release/1.4/lib/node201.html

Which showed examples of using the rect class, to perform union/intersections/ch开发者_开发问答ecking if points are inside rect. Importing rect fails in Python 2.7. Is this class in another package?

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I assume the question isn't really "what happened to it?", but "where can I find a class like this that I can use?".

Most GUI libraries have a class like this. For example: wx.Rect, QRect/QRectF, gtk.gdk.Rectangle, PyGame rect.

If you want a generic rectangle class without the overhead of a GUI library, I think your only option is Sympy, which has a Geometry module that may suit your needs.

Finally, you may just choose to roll your own. It's not very hard to make such a class.

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It's part of the Standard Windowing interface. To quote from the documentation you yourself linked to:

Using STDWIN is not recommended for new applications. It has never been ported to Microsoft Windows or Windows NT, and for X11 or the Macintosh it lacks important functionality -- in particular, it has no tools for the construction of dialogs.

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The stdwin module containing rect class was obsolete since version 1.6 (see these notes) and I believe it was removed in some later version.

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I think the rest of the answers have covered you. However I was in your shoes, and made a generic module to benefit more people. You can find the project here. The module works with both negative and positive numbers on a screen coordinate system (y grows downwards of screen, x grows to the right).

Some methods supported:

• Distance from one rectangle to an other
• See if rectangles overlap on x, y or both axis (default)
• See if a point is inside a rectangle
• Align rectangles