self.rect not found?

Question

I have a program that is simply made to move an image around. I try to state the self.rect as part of a load_png() call, but it simply does not like it. THe reason I think this will work is from http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/tom/games6.html, saying that this should work:

def __init__(self, side):
            pygame.sprite.Sprite.__init__(self)
            self.image, self.rect = load_png('bat.png')
            screen = pygame.display.get_surface()
            self.area = screen.get_rect()
            self.side = side
            self.speed = 10
            self.state = "still"
            self.reinit()

Here is my code, which according to the pygame tutorial from its own website, should work:

def _init_(self):
    pygame.sprite.Sprite._init_(self)
    self.state = 'still'
    self.image =  pygame.image.load('goodGuy.png')
    self.rect = self.image.get_rect()       
    screen = pygame.display.getSurface()

And it gives me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python25\RPG.py", line 37, in <module>
screen.blit(screen, Guy.rect, Guy.rect)
AttributeError: 'goodGuy' object has no attribute 'rect'

If you guys need all of my code, comment blew and I will edit it.

Do you have a load_png function defined as per the link you provided? — timc
AhHA! I assumed that was a built in python function. return image.get_rect() will suffice, correct? — Elias Benevedes
You need to create an image using pygame.image.load and this will have a rect property. See my answer below. — timc
The error you're getting is occurring outside of the code that you have posted. You will need to post that code as well. Also, why are you blitting the screen on itself? — kevintodisco

timc timc · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-05T03:41:42

You don't have a load_png function defined.

You need to create the pygame image object before you can access its rect property.

self.image = pygame.image.load(file)

Then you can assign the rect value using

self.rect = self.image.get_rect()

Or you could create the load_png function as per the example you linked.

self.rect not found?

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