What causes the attribute problems? - attributes

Question

What is problem with the attribute?
class player(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
def __init__(self):
pygame.sprite.Sprite.__init__(self)
self.movex = 0
self.movey = 0
self.frame = 0
self.images = []
for i in range(1, 5):
img = pygame.image.load(os.path.join('Assets','Arts','xeonsheet','xeonsheet_' + str(i) + '.png')).convert()
self.images.append(img)
self.image = self.images[0]
self.rect = self.images.get_rect()
def control(self, x, y): #Control player movement
self.movex += x
self.movey += y
def update(self): #Update sprite position
self.rect.x = self.rect.x + self.movex
self.rect.y = self.rect.y + self.movey
# moving left
if self.movex < 0:
self.frame += 1
if self.frame > 3 * ani:
self.frame = 0
# moving right
if self.movex > 0:
self.frame += 1
if self.frame > 3 * ani:
self.frame = 0
player = player()
player.rect.x = 0
player.rect.y = 0
player_list = pygame.sprite.Group()
player_list.add(player)
ani = 4
steps = 10
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Acer/PycharmProjects/Dreamwind-Chronicles/main.py", line 148, in <module>
player = player()
File "C:/Users/Acer/PycharmProjects/Dreamwind-Chronicles/main.py", line 122, in __init__
self.rect = self.images.get_rect()
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'get_rect'

Answer 1

It looks like you were trying to create a Rect object from the self.images list. The problem here is that self.images is a list and not a pygame.image, therefore it doesn't have a get_rect() method. What you should be doing is getting the Rect from one of the images in that list.
Another problem is that you're running this code in the for loop, so each image's rect is getting overwritten by the proceeding image.
Your code should look something like this:
class player(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
def __init__(self):
pygame.sprite.Sprite.__init__(self)
self.movex = 0
self.movey = 0
self.frame = 0
self.images = []
for i in range(1, 5):
img = pygame.image.load(os.path.join('Assets','Arts','xeonsheet','xeonsheet_' + str(i) + '.png')).convert()
self.images.append(img)
self.image = self.images[0]
self.rect = self.image.get_rect() #The part that was changed
def control(self, x, y): #Control player movement
self.movex += x
self.movey += y
def update(self): #Update sprite position
self.rect.x = self.rect.x + self.movex
self.rect.y = self.rect.y + self.movey
# moving left
if self.movex < 0:
self.frame += 1
if self.frame > 3 * ani:
self.frame = 0
# moving right
if self.movex > 0:
self.frame += 1
if self.frame > 3 * ani:
self.frame = 0
But, this is assuming that every image in your self.images list is the same size. If they are sized differently, the Rect of the player will only be scaled to the first image. To change this, you could update the self.rect in the update method. However, I'm not going to expand on this as it's not really part of the question.