Question

I’m working on a game. I have pygame imported.
I am using Python 3.3 and Pygame 3.3.
The same error message all the time “LEFT” is not defined.
I did exact copies of what were on the internet as I already did a search for the problem.
Here is my code. I have tried a few different ways and neither seem to work.

method 1:

import pygame
event = pygame.event.poll()
if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN and event.button == LEFT:
    ....command

method 2: (basically going all in)

from pygame import *
from pygame.locals import *
import pygame
event = pygame.event.poll()
if event.type == MOUSEBUTTONDOWN and event.button == LEFT:
    ......command

Before telling me, on both those methods I tried switching between “LEFT” and “pygame.LEFT”, and so on.

Any ideas?

Hugely appreciated.

Answer 1

Define LEFT yourself:

LEFT = 1

The Pygame tutorial I think you are following does exactly that. In other words, the pygame library has no constants for this value, it’s just an integer.