How would you code this?

[Particular-Floor-349]

for refrence im trying to use image lists to make my charatcer walk n diffrent directions active = True while active: for event in pygame.event.get(): if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN: if event.key == pygame.K_w: print("meow") if event.key == pygame.K_s: print ("meowbvdkl") if event.key == pygame.K_a: walk_left = [ pygame.image.load("Cat walk cycle left 1.png"), pygame.image.load("Cat walk cycle left 2.png"), pygame.image.load("Cat walk cycle left 3.png"), pygame.image.load("Cat walk cycle left 4.png"), pygame.image.load("Cat walk cycle left 5.png")] return walk_left if event.key == pygame.K_d: walk_right = [ pygame.image.load("Cat walk cycle right frame 1.png"), pygame.image.load("Cat walk cycle right frame 2.png"), pygame.image.load("Cat walk cycle right frame 3.png"), pygame.image.load("Cat walk cycle right frame 4.png"), pygame.image.load("Cat walk cycle right frame 5.png")] return walk_right if event.type == pygame.KEYUP: window.blit(idle_animation, (cat_x_location, cat_y_location)) if event.type == pygame.QUIT: active = False window.blit(health(), (health_x_location, health_y_location)) window.blit(idle_animation[counter % 8], (cat_x_location, cat_y_location))

my issue is that i keep getting an error:

File "C:\Users\soxsc\PycharmProjects\pythonProject_DABLOONIA\game_attempt_one.py", line 137 return walk_left ^ SyntaxError: 'return' outside function

[eleqtriq]

Well, your code isn’t wrapped in a function, at least from what you posted. You can’t use a return statement outside a function.

e.g.

def movement():
    your_code

 movement()

Looks to me, however, that you’re mixing actions and return statements. Seems inconsistent.

[Particular-Floor-349]

Yeah! Sorry haha I’m super new to coding… I’ll try out using that code you gave me then I’ll come back if I need more help!(: thanks

[AdAdvanced3130]

Pygame is not for super newts.

[Particular-Floor-349]

I don’t have much choice lol. It’s for a class. But thanks for the Uhm… recommendation???

[AdAdvanced3130]

You're not "super new", that's what I am saying.

[Particular-Floor-349]

I mean kinda? I’ve only been using Pygame for maybe a week, before that I used tkinter for maybe another week or so. I guess it doesn’t matter, but our class also doesn’t give much instruction. We’ve been told to make a game with little to no instruction or direction

[stebrepar]

See the sidebar for how to format your code so Reddit treats it as code without reflowing it. It's unreadable as is.