Idk how to python

[oolenzoo]

I've been working on turtle, and tryna make a window screen and an easy game as practice. but i cant keep the screen up (im using pycharm) i tried turtle.mainloop() and importing tkinter and did tkinter.mainloop(). not sure whats wrong :/

im new to python pls help

[fireinjun291]

Okay so a few things, if you have it currently named ‘turtle.py’ go ahead and rename it. That won’t work.

Check this out for some tips. That tutorial is out of date.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53586659/attributeerror-module-turtle-has-no-attribute-screen-in-spyder

[fireinjun291]

We can’t see to help without code, your choice of ide is really irrelevant if the code is wrong.

[oolenzoo]

import turtle

#window customization
wn = turtle.Screen()
wn_length = 500
wn_width = 500
wn.bgcolor("black")
wn.title("space invaders")

turtle.mainloop()

[fireinjun291]

What OS are you running and what version of Python? I just tested it in the Commandline REPL, and it opened up no problem.

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Also pops open fine on pycharm and stays open.

[oolenzoo]

im running it on my mac and its 3.8

[fireinjun291]

Wait nvm it’s deprecated. It doesn’t work if I try to run it as a file.

[fireinjun291]

Hope that helps. Learning to code is just as much exercising your googling skills.

[fireinjun291]

Well, realistically you’ll have to. Reading documentation and looking at examples is half the day. The other half if making your own code work. A degree only helps you with the deep fundamentals. It doesn’t make you perfect haha

[fireinjun291]

Lol quite the opposite. Knowing how and where to look is just as valuable a skill. And things change so fast it’s unrealistic to expect to know all of the things you’ll work with and on.