pygame scale an image down code example

Example 1: how to change the scale of a picture in pygame

import pygame
picture = pygame.image.load(filename)
picture = pygame.transform.scale(picture, (1280, 720))

Example 2: pygame scale image

"""Load image"""
# I'm loading an image, but that does not matter.
surface = pygame.image.load("path/to/file.png").convert()
# Documentation for Surface.convert() and Surface.convert_alpha():
# https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/surface.html#pygame.Surface.convert

"""Scale / resize surface"""
surface = pygame.transform.scale(surface=surface, size=(50, 50))
# In depth documentation:
# https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/transform.html#pygame.transform.rotate