I support mspriggs opinion to have OpenGL support...
Although I think it can be real challenge, since it seems the ES bindings may not be very mature.
http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/4852/how-to-use-opengl-es-through-python
https://github.com/peterderivaz/pyopengles
http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/
IMHO, I think this might boost Pythonista popularity, even more.