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Python Won't Comp

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Started by mangine August 07, 2004 05:55 PM

8 comments, last by TravisWells 19 years, 11 months ago

mangine

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August 07, 2004 05:55 PM

I am having trouble getting the example from pygame.org called "Intro" to compile. I am running the latest version of python and pygame version 1.6. here is the code:


import sys, pygame
pygame.init()

size = width, height = 320, 240
speed = [2, 2]
black = 0, 0, 0

screen = pygame.display.set_mode(size)

ball = pygame.image.load("ball.bmp")
ballrect = ball.get_rect()

while 1:
	for event in pygame.event.get():
		if event.type == pygame.QUIT:

	ballrect = ballrect = ballrect.move(speed)
	if ballrect.left < 0 or ballrect.right > width:
		speed[0] = -speed[0]
	if ballrect.top < 0 or ballrect.bottom > height:
		speed[1] = -speed[1]

	screen.fill(black)
	screen.blit(ball, ballrect)
	pygame.display.flip()

Can anyone help? Edit - Added source box - indentation matters [Edited by - Fruny on August 7, 2004 8:43:30 PM]

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Cherez

175

August 07, 2004 05:58 PM

I don't see why you wold need to compile an example script... but anyway, what kidn of error are you getting?

CodeTitan

258

August 07, 2004 08:08 PM

If you don't post the errors you get, it's much harder for us to derive the error.

Fruny

1,658

August 07, 2004 08:44 PM

if event.type == pygame.QUIT: then what?

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valkyr

210

August 07, 2004 09:51 PM

What errors are you egtting? Are you sure you have a ball.bmp in the same directory?

thedevdan

210

August 08, 2004 03:00 AM

That syntax looks nice. [tears]

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mangine

130

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August 08, 2004 06:31 AM

My workflow might be entirely wrong. What I do is use notepad and save the files as .py, this gives them the proper icon. When I double click on them, they either bring up a dos window in the back and run, or, if it containing errors (I guess thats it) It breifly brings up the same dos window, but only for a moment then It shuts down. Am I not executing this right? I admit, I don't really understand python.

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Monder

993

August 08, 2004 06:57 AM

That's one way to do it, though I far prefer using IDLE which comes with python. This is a nicer editor than just plain notepad, it comes with a debugger and also a python console so when you run a program you can actually read the error messages python gives.

Hollower

685

August 08, 2004 05:12 PM

Looking at the listing here you have mistakes in line 15 and line 17. See them?

Oh and Python is interpreted, not compiled.

TravisWells

276

August 11, 2004 05:30 PM

Then what are all these "Compiled Python File (.pyc)" files?
(It's compiled to bytecode, which is then run on a VM)

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