Hi Luke, Thanks for that. From the code you've got there it looks like a list should work fine. I haven't got the code I'd been trying to hand (essentially assigning a new sprite to the list, but it sounds as though it was a python problem, not pygame)
I shouldn't have any problems with this from now on. Thanks very much. Fingers crossed! >From your code, you could reference sprites[5] to get the sixth sprite, right? Thanks Ben 2009/10/26 Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoob...@gmail.com> > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Ben Collier <bmcoll...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm fairly new to pygame, certainly haven't used it much, and up until now >> have been creating sprites by defining an extension to the sprite class and >> then instantiating each sprite by assigning it as, for example: >> >> newsprite = NewSprite(250,250) >> >> ...with the arguments that the init method uses in brackets. >> >> If I want to create, say, 150 sprites, and simply add each one to a group >> rather than having to have a distinct reference for each one, how do I do >> it? I can't seem to find an example online and I've not had much luck adding >> them to an array. >> > > Why have you not been able to add them to a list? (by the way, we call > them "lists" not arrays in Python) > Can you not just say > locations = [(250, 250), (100,100), (300, 300)] > sprites = [NewSprite(location) for location in locations] > spritegroup = NewSpriteGroup() > for sprite in sprites: > spritegroup.add(sprite) > > Note this is pseudocode as I don't remember the exact syntax to initialize > sprites, etc. but you should get the idea. Is there a problem doing it this > way? > > (In the future, it would be better to say "I have tried it this way, and it > did not work because" or "i have tried it this way and I am not sure why it > did not work but here is what it did" or something like this, so we have > some indication of what you have tried, and why it didn't work. > See > http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html<http://catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html>) > > -Luke > >
