🔒 Pygame basic movement error

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[frail vortex]

Hi I am trying to make basic movement for a rectangle but why wont it move when I press the key corresponding to movement?

import pygame

pygame.init()

SCREEN_HEIGHT = 500
SCREEN_WIDTH = 600

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((SCREEN_HEIGHT, SCREEN_WIDTH))

run = True

player = pygame.Rect((250, 250, 50, 50))

while run:
    pygame.draw.rect(screen, (255, 0, 0), player)

    key = pygame.key.get_pressed()
    if key[pygame.K_a] == True:
        player.move(-1, 0)

    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            run = False

    pygame.display.update()

pygame.quit()

Hi I am trying to make basic movement for a rectangle but why wont it move when I press the key corresponding to movement?

[heavy sage]

first of all, you dont need to check if this is true if key[pygame.K_a] == True

you can just have it as if key[pygame.K_a]

[serene pilot]

ye

[heavy sage]

and also, you need to assign the player to the player.move

[serene pilot]

lgtm

[heavy sage]

so it would be player=player.move(-1, 0)

[serene pilot]

what?

[heavy sage]

what?

[serene pilot]

doesnt he also want pygame.Rect().move_ip()?

i see a missing screen refresh call

[serene pilot]

where would you

[heavy sage]

can do

[serene pilot]

put that

[heavy sage]

his current code says player.move(-1, 0) when it should be player = player.move(-1, 0)

[serene pilot]

i see nothing wrong with the code

[serene pilot]

what?

oh yeah

but i think he should move in place

[heavy sage]

yeah, could also do that

i was just giving a fix, based on what he provided

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