What's difference between .get_rect() and pygame.Rect()?

Question

I have seen image.get_rect() and pygame.Rect() being used in different programs.How do they exactly differ from each other.Don't both of these codes are used to set a rectangular boundary around a surface/image or are they different?

Answer 1

rect = pygame.Rect(x, y, w, h) constructs an instance object of the class pygame.Rect.

pygame.Surface.get_rect creates a pygame.Rect object from a surface the size of the surface. e.g.:

rect = image.get_rect(center = (x, y)) 

pygame.Surface.get_rect.get_rect() returns a rectangle with the size of the Surface object, that always starts at (0, 0) since a Surface object has no position. The position of the rectangle can be specified by a keyword argument. For example, the center of the rectangle can be specified with the keyword argument center. These keyword argument are applied to the attributes of the pygame.Rect before it is returned (see pygame.Rect for a full list of the keyword arguments).