Color input is inconsistent about pygame

[illume]

Original comment by Lenard Lindstrom (Bitbucket: llindstrom, GitHub: llindstrom):

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This request would take significant refactoring, particularly in pygame.base and pygame.color and pygame.pixelarray. The simplest approach is to add '' and '#' handling to _RGBAFromColorObj. Then anything in Pygame that accepts a color value would also take a string. It would also mean

#!python
pixel_array[...] = 'black'

would be allowed. I recall some objection to that, but if it is not a problem I can tackle this issue.

Lenard

[illume]

Original comment by René Dudfield (Bitbucket: illume, GitHub: illume):

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Marking as an enhancement proposal.

It would be nice to be able to do things like this:

surf.fill('black')
surf.fill('#FFEECCF0')

I've often wanted this feature myself, and others have suggested it before.

This needs some thought, and a lot of testing to see what side effects this could have. Also, we need to decide on scheduling if this is a much wanted feature or not, and how much work it would take to implement/test.