Finding if two polygons Intersect in Python?

You could try shapely.

They describe spatial relationships and it work on windows

The spatial data model is accompanied by a group of natural language relationships between geometric objects – contains, intersects, overlaps, touches, etc. – and a theoretical framework for understanding them using the 3x3 matrix of the mutual intersections of their component point sets

The following code shows how you can test for intersection:

from shapely.geometry import Polygon
p1 = Polygon([(0,0), (1,1), (1,0)])
p2 = Polygon([(0,1), (1,0), (1,1)])
print(p1.intersects(p2))

You can use the GDAL/OGR Python bindings for that.

from osgeo import ogr

wkt1 = "POLYGON ((1208064.271243039 624154.6783778917, 1208064.271243039 601260.9785661874, 1231345.9998651114 601260.9785661874, 1231345.9998651114 624154.6783778917, 1208064.271243039 624154.6783778917))"
wkt2 = "POLYGON ((1199915.6662253144 633079.3410163528, 1199915.6662253144 614453.958118695, 1219317.1067437078 614453.958118695, 1219317.1067437078 633079.3410163528, 1199915.6662253144 633079.3410163528)))"

poly1 = ogr.CreateGeometryFromWkt(wkt1)
poly2 = ogr.CreateGeometryFromWkt(wkt2)

intersection = poly1.Intersection(poly2)

print intersection.ExportToWkt()

It returns None if they don't intersect. If they intersect it returns the geometry were both intersect.

Also you can find further infos in the GDAL/OGR Cookbook .

I know this is an old question, but I've written a python library for handling collisions between concave and convex polygons, as well as circles.

It's pretty simple to use, here you go!

Example:

from collision import *
from collision import Vector as v

p0 = Concave_Poly(v(0,0), [v(-80,0), v(-20,20), v(0,80), v(20,20), v(80,0),  v(20,-20), v(0,-80), v(-20,-20)])
p1 = Concave_Poly(v(20,20), [v(-80,0), v(-20,20), v(0,80), v(20,20), v(80,0),  v(20,-20), v(0,-80), v(-20,-20)])

print(collide(p0,p1))

You can also have it generate a reponse, which includes:

overlap (how much they overlap)
overlap vector (when subtracted from second shapes position, the shapes will no longer be colliding)
overlap vector normalized (vector direction of collision)
a in b (whether the first shape is fully inside the second)
b in a (whether the second shape is fully inside the first)

https://github.com/QwekoDev/collision