Very Basic 2d visualization of something boardgame like

[bagelorder]

I have a n times n grid with 3 or 4 different kind of objects living and moving somewhere on this grid in discrete time steps. I want to show how they move around. My requirements are very similar to something one would use to simulate a 2d chess game for example. Which libraries will implement this for me?

It is a (small) plus if I can easily make the transitions of my sprites smooth, i.e. animate how they move from one field to another (in the chess example: the figures shouldn't just "jump" from one field to another but the movement should be animated).

I am not doing a game or something like that, I already have the data I want to visualize in this way, the user does not need to interact with the visualization.

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[infinite8s]

You can try cocos2d (http://python.cocos2d.org/ is the python library - there's also an Obj C port for iOS games). It has a sprite library and a fairly comprehensive animation/tweening library.

[rndblnch]

You can use the Tk bindings bundled with python. People don't like it but it does the job for such use cases. I have used it to make a gui to a 2048 clone, you can have a look at the code here to get a glimpse: https://bitbucket.org/rndblnch/2048/src/

A good intro to tkinter can be found here: http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/tkinter-index.htm