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Charles Noon
Charles Noon

Reputation: 601

Pygame - number of sprites in a group

How do I determine how many sprites are in a group? len() should work, but just... doesn't. Code:

print(len(sprites))
print('sprites',sprites)

Output:

0
('sprites', <Group(1 sprites)>)

(Yes, I did make a group called 'sprites')

EDIT: I renamed "sprites" to "aliveSprites", just in case that was the issue. No luck. Here's the code:

print(len(aliveSprites.sprites()))
if len(aliveSprites.sprites()) == 0:
    thing = test()
    aliveSprites.add(thing)

    thing.rect.x = 100
    thing.rect.y = 300

print('sprites',aliveSprites)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6652

Answers (2)

John La Rooy
John La Rooy

Reputation: 304355

You need to call sprites() to get the list of sprites

print(len(sprites.sprites()))

Upvotes: 4

Aidan
Aidan

Reputation: 767

Try (as ugly as it looks)

len(sprites.sprites)

Pygame Sprites Group does support the len operation. 

pygame.sprite.Group

A simple container for Sprite objects. This class can be inherited to create containers with more specific behaviors. The constructor takes any number of Sprite arguments to add to the Group. The group supports the following standard Python operations:

in      test if a Sprite is contained
len     the number of Sprites contained
bool    test if any Sprites are contained
iter    iterate through all the Sprites

Upvotes: 3

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