AttributeError: 'pygame.Surface' object has no attribute 'rect'

Question

I keep getting this error. Here's the full traceback.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Luc/PycharmProjects/game_practice/game.py", line 23, in 
<module>
run_game()
File "C:/Users/Luc/PycharmProjects/game_practice/game.py", line 13, in 
run_game
player = Player(ai_settings, screen)
File "C:\Users\Luc\PycharmProjects\game_practice\player.py", line 8, in 
__init__
self.rect.centerx = screen.rect.left
AttributeError: 'pygame.Surface' object has no attribute 'rect'

Here's the code for the "Player" file that's having an issue:

class Player:
    def __init__(self, ai_settings, screen):
        self.screen = screen
        self.screen_rect = screen.get_rect()
        self.rect = pygame.Rect((0, 0), (ai_settings.player_width, 
        ai_settings.player_height))
        self.rect.centerx = screen.rect.left
        self.rect.centery = screen.rect.ai_settings.screen_height / 2
        self.color = ai_settings.player_color

    def draw_player(self):
        pygame.draw.rect(self.screen, self.color, self.rect)

When I comment these two lines:

self.rect.centerx = screen.rect.left
self.rect.centery = screen.rect.ai_settings.screen_height / 2

The program runs with the rectangle initialized at (0,0) like its supposed to, so I am not really sure why the object has an attribute error when I include the other lines.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 29 '17 at 12:47

The screen is a pygame.Surface which has no rect attribute, but you can get a rect with the size of the surface by calling screen.get_rect() what you already do in this line:

self.screen_rect = screen.get_rect()

Now you just have to use your self.screen_rect instead of screen.rect and your code should work.

# To place the player at the midleft.
self.rect.midleft = self.screen_rect.midleft

AttributeError: 'pygame.Surface' object has no attribute 'rect'

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