This code makes OpenGL simpler to get started with.  It provides these classes:
<p>
</p><p>GL_Texture - Loads texture data and provides a draw function
<br />Textureset - Container for textures
<br />GL_Image - Bootstraps off of Textureset; it provides a more sophisticated draw method and contains default values for said method
<br />CImage - Multiple GLImages cached together, for ex. a tiled landscape
<br />DCImage - Dynamic version of Cimage; much lower performance
<br />LDCImage - Simplified version of DCImage with midrange performance but no special drawing arguments
</p><p>
The test code will run if you add a 32x32 .bmp image to "/data". It demos all of the featured classes and functions, but not every included method</p><p>

<code>
import pygame
import os

from OpenGL.GL import *
from OpenGL.GLU import *

def initializeDisplay(w, h):
    pygame.display.set_mode((w,h), pygame.OPENGL|pygame.DOUBLEBUF)

    glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0)
    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT|GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT)

    glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION)
    glLoadIdentity();
    # this puts us in quadrant 1, rather than quadrant 4
    gluOrtho2D(0, w, h, 0)
    glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW)

    # set up texturing
    glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D)
    glEnable(GL_BLEND)
    glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA)


def render_init(w,h):
    """Finds the smallest available resolution that fits the desired
    viewfield."""
    pygame.init()
    modelist = pygame.display.list_modes()
    nextmode = [l for l in modelist if l[0]>=w and l[1]>=h]
    bestx, besty = -1,-1
    for l in nextmode:
        if (bestx==-1 or bestx>=l[0]) and (besty==-1 or besty>=l[1]):
            bestx, besty = l[0],l[1]

    print "resolution: ",bestx, besty

    initializeDisplay(bestx, besty)

def loadImage(image):
    textureSurface = pygame.image.load(image)

    textureData = pygame.image.tostring(textureSurface, "RGBA", 1)

    width = textureSurface.get_width()
    height = textureSurface.get_height()

    texture = glGenTextures(1)
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture)
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR)
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR)
    glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA, width, height, 0, GL_RGBA,
        GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, textureData)

    return texture, width, height

def SurfaceClip(surface, rect):
    textureSurface = surface.subsurface(rect)

    textureData = pygame.image.tostring(textureSurface, "RGBA", 1)

    width = textureSurface.get_width()
    height = textureSurface.get_height()

    texture = glGenTextures(1)
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture)
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR)
    glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR)
    glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA, width, height, 0, GL_RGBA,
        GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, textureData)

    return texture, width, height


def delTexture(texture):
    glDeleteTextures(texture)


def createTexDL(texture, width, height):
    newList = glGenLists(1)
    glNewList(newList,GL_COMPILE);
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture)
    glBegin(GL_QUADS)

    # Bottom Left Of The Texture and Quad
    glTexCoord2f(0, 0); glVertex2f(0, 0)

    # Top Left Of The Texture and Quad
    glTexCoord2f(0, 1); glVertex2f(0, height)

    # Top Right Of The Texture and Quad
    glTexCoord2f(1, 1); glVertex2f( width,  height)

    # Bottom Right Of The Texture and Quad
    glTexCoord2f(1, 0); glVertex2f(width, 0)
    glEnd()
    glEndList()

    return newList


def delDL(list):
    glDeleteLists(list, 1)

def render(layers):
    for l in layers:
        l.render()

class GL_Texture:
    def __init__(s, texname=None, texappend=".png"):
        filename = os.path.join('data', texname)
        filename += texappend
       
        s.texture, s.width, s.height = loadImage(filename)
        s.displaylist = createTexDL(s.texture, s.width, s.height)       

    def __del__(self):
        if self.texture != None:
            delTexture(self.texture)
            self.texture = None
        if self.displaylist != None:
            delDL(self.displaylist)
            self.displaylist = None

    def __repr__(s):
        return s.texture.__repr__()

class Textureset:
    """Texturesets contain and name textures."""

    def __init__(s):
        s.textures = {}
    def load(s, texname=None, texappend=".png"):
        s.textures[texname] = GL_Texture(texname, texappend)
    def set(s, texname, data):
        s.textures[texname] = data
    def delete(s, texname):
        del s.textures[texname]
    def __del__(s):
        s.textures.clear()
        del s.textures
    def get(s, name):
        return s.textures[name]

class GL_Image:
    def __init__(self, texset, texname):
        self.texture = texset.get(texname)
        self.width = self.texture.width
        self.height = self.texture.height
        self.abspos=None
        self.relpos=None
        self.color=(1,1,1,1)
        self.rotation=0
        self.rotationCenter=None

    def draw(self, abspos=None, relpos=None, width=None, height=None,
            color=None, rotation=None, rotationCenter=None):
        if color==None:
            color = self.color

        glColor4fv(color)

        if abspos:
            glLoadIdentity()
            glTranslate(abspos[0],abspos[1],0)
        elif relpos:
            glTranslate(relpos[0],relpos[1],0)

        if rotation==None:
            rotation=self.rotation

        if rotation != 0:
                if rotationCenter == None:
                    rotationCenter = (self.width / 2, self.height / 2)
                # (w,h) = rotationCenter
                glTranslate(rotationCenter[0],rotationCenter[1],0)
                glRotate(rotation,0,0,-1)
                glTranslate(-rotationCenter[0],-rotationCenter[1],0)

        if width or height:
            if not width:
                width = self.width
            elif not height:
                height = self.height

            glScalef(width/(self.width*1.0), height/(self.height*1.0), 1.0)
                

        glCallList(self.texture.displaylist)

        if rotation != 0: # reverse
            glTranslate(rotationCenter[0],rotationCenter[1],0)
            glRotate(-rotation,0,0,-1)
            glTranslate(-rotationCenter[0],-rotationCenter[1],0)

class CImage:
    """CImage is a "composed image" that refs multiple GLImages.
    format is [(GLImage,argstoimage)...()..()]
    Cimage is fast but immutable - it has to recreate
    the display list to be changed."""
    
    def __init__(s, ilist):
        newlist = glGenLists(1)
        glNewList(newlist,GL_COMPILE)

        # see GL_Image.draw
        for i in ilist:
            if i[1][0] == None:
                i[0].draw(i[1][0], i[1][1], i[1][2], i[1][3], i[1][4],
                    i[1][5], i[1][6])
            else: # absolute positioning normally resets the identity
                i[0].draw(None,i[1][0], i[1][2], i[1][3], i[1][4], i[1][5],
                    i[1][6])
                glTranslate(-i[1][0][0], -i[1][0][1],0)               

        glEndList()
        s.displaylist = newlist

    def __del__(s):
        if s.displaylist != None:
            delDL(s.displaylist)
            s.displaylist = None

    def draw(s, abspos=None,relpos=None):
        if abspos:
            glLoadIdentity()
            glTranslate(abspos[0],abspos[1],0)
        elif relpos:
            glTranslate(relpos[0],relpos[1],0)

        glCallList(s.displaylist)

class DCImage:
    """Dynamic Composite Image - elements are mutable, at the caveat of
    runtime performance."""
    def __init__(s, ilist):      
        s.ilist = ilist
    def draw(s, abspos):
        glLoadIdentity()
        glTranslate(abspos[0],abspos[1],0)

        for i in s.ilist:
            i[0].draw(i[1])

class LDCImage:
    """Limited Dynamic Composite Image. LDCImage uses only the
    texture display lists for drawing, which makes it useful for simpler
    applications like text and tiles that don't need the features of DCImage.
    
    Remember not to mistake this for *LCD* Image!"""
    def __init__(s, cache):
        """cache format is: (texture ref, (absx, absy))"""
        s.cache = cache
    def draw(s, abspos):

        glLoadIdentity()
        glTranslate(abspos[0],abspos[1],0)

        for c in s.cache:
            glTranslate(c[1][0], c[1][1],0)
            glCallList(c[0].displaylist)
            glTranslate(-c[1][0], -c[1][1],0)

def main():
    render_init(640,480)
    tset = Textureset()
    tset.load('foo','.bmp')
    fooimage = GL_Image(tset, 'foo')
    rawfootex = tset.get('foo')

    compositelist = []
    examplegrid = []

    for x in xrange(4):
        for y in xrange(4):
            examplegrid.append((rawfootex,(x*32,y*32)))
            compositelist.append((fooimage, ((x*32,y*32), None, None,
                None, (1,1,1,1), 1, None)))
   
    ldcimg = LDCImage(examplegrid)
    foocomposite = CImage(compositelist)
    
    clock = pygame.time.Clock()
    t = 0
    glLoadIdentity()
    for count in range(100):
        glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT|GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT)
        if t==0:
            ldcimg.draw((10,10))
            fooimage.draw((0,0))
            t=1
        else:
            t=0
            foocomposite.draw((320,200))   
        clock.tick()
        pygame.display.flip()
        pygame.event.pump()
    print "result: "+str(clock.get_fps())+" FPS"
    

if __name__=="__main__":
    main()
</code></p>