pygame copy image, then rotate it

Question

I have one picture which I want to use multiple times on the screen but it always has to be rotated differently. If I use the pygame.image.rotate function it rotates the imported image so I can't rotate every image on its own. Is there any way I can copy it in the code and then rotate it?

> image = pygame.image.load("assets/image")  
pygame.transform.rotate(image, 20) #rotated by 20 deg  
pygame.transform.rotate(image, 20) #rotated by 20  + 20 deg  
#what i want  
copy(pygame.transform.rotate(image, 20))

Answer 1

If you use pygame.image.load() and put it in a variable, then just put again in another one
For example:

image = pygame.image.load(path) #if you load like that
image_2 = pygame.image.load(path)
image = pygame.transform.rotozoom(image,90,1) #image 2 stays the same and you can rotate it a different way

Answer 2

The function pygame.image.rotate does not exist, however pygame.transform.rotate does exist.

pygame.transform.rotate does not rotate the image itself. This function creates a rotated copy of the image and returns the copy:

image = pygame.image.load("assets/image") 
rotated_image_copy = pygame.transform.rotate(image, 20) 

See also How do I rotate an image around its center using PyGame? .