[pygame] pygame.image.load - PyCharm inspection warning

I have two questions about pygame.image.load. Here's the first: I use IDLE when I teach classes. But when I am trying to develop something for myself, I use PyCharm Community Edition. There are many things I like about PyCharm and one of them is the analysis of errors that is available in the

[pygame] Building paths & pygame.image.load documentation

Here's my second question about pygame.image.load. Actually it's a question about specifying paths in pygame. In my classes, I talk about the concept of a path for loading images, sounds, etc. I suggest that students create an "images" folder and if needed, a "sounds" folder in their project

Re: [pygame] Building paths & pygame.image.load documentation

As far as I know, the os.path version does a string conversion to the platform-preferred way of specifying paths. So e.g. on Windows it replaces "/" with "\". This is intended for compatibility with very Windows-focused apps that (deliberately?) don't understand "/". However, for the system-level

Re: [pygame] Building paths & pygame.image.load documentation

Thanks Ian. I'm not worried about the os module being available. I use pygame in classes that I teach, and it seems like its just one more thing for students to understand and remember. I teach mostly art students, very few computer science students. I've used relative path like this: pyga

Re: [pygame] Building paths & pygame.image.load documentation

On Nov 25, 2017 16:53, "Irv Kalb" wrote: Thanks Ian. I'm not worried about the os module being available. I use pygame in classes that I teach, and it seems like its just one more thing for students to understand and remember. I teach mostly art students, very few computer science students.

Re: [pygame] Building paths & pygame.image.load documentation

Irv Kalb wrote: But then I point out how Python solves this issue by allowing programmers to use the "/" character as the folder separator character - and how Python maps that character into the appropriate character for the operating system on which the program is running. This is WRONG. Pyt

Re: [pygame] Building paths & pygame.image.load documentation

Also note that many parts of Python (since 3.6 I believe) now support Path-like objects. Taking a quick look at the documentation (as I've not used them before), it looks like your code would change to: from pathlib import Path pygame.image.load(Path('images/ball.png')) If I run the path

Re: [pygame] Building paths & pygame.image.load documentation

Ian Mallett wrote: As far as I know, the os.path version does a string conversion to the platform-preferred way of specifying paths. No, it doesn't -- that only happens if you use normpath(): >>> os.path.join("abc/def", "ghi") 'abc/def\\ghi' >>> os.path.normpath('abc/def\\ghi') 'abc\\def\\ghi'

Re: [pygame] Building paths & pygame.image.load documentation

Irv Kalb wrote: I started working in that environment in the days of Mac OS9. At that time, the Mac folder separator character was the ":" colon character. Yes, in those days it was vitally necessary to use the os.path functions for cross-platform code. VMS is another example of a system whi

Re: [pygame] Building paths & pygame.image.load documentation

Ian Mallett wrote: Hmm I didn't know this, never really viewing Macs as suitable for development. Classic MacOS wasn't great for development, but MacOSX is a flavour of Unix, so you get all the usual developer comforts. -- Greg