Pygame game loop syntax error

Question

I'm just doing some development in pygame and I've run into some very strange trouble. This is my code:

import pygame, sys
from pygame.locals import *

#Declarin some variables
WINHEIGHT = 320
WINWIDTH = 640
red = (255, 0, 0)

pygame.init()
DISPLAY = pygame.display.set_mode((WINWIDTH, WINHEIGHT))
pygame.display.set_caption('My First PyGame')
FONT = pygame.font.Font(None, 32)

while True:

    pygame.draw.circle(DISPLAY, red, (100, 100)

    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            sys.exit()

I get an invalid syntax error on line 18 saying that

for event in pygame.event.get():
                               ^

Is a syntax error even though it isn't, help?

RocketDonkey · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-05 01:17:20Z

3

Note the line above:

pygame.draw.circle(DISPLAY, red, (100, 100)

You are missing a parenthesis:

pygame.draw.circle(DISPLAY, red, (100, 100))

answered Jan 5, 2013 at 1:17

RocketDonkey

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RocketDonkey Over a year ago

@NicholasWright Ha, don't - I'd be lying if I said I never got tripped up by that :)

ninMonkey Over a year ago

If you're not using syntax highlighting, it helps with stuff like that.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-14 10:22:01Z

1

You missed a ) in
Just put that (pygame.draw.circle(DISPLAY, red, (100, 100) # here!

edited Jan 14, 2013 at 10:22

answered Jan 12, 2013 at 13:10

user1971987

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DSM Over a year ago

Your second line seems to be copied from your answer to another question, and this answer is just a duplicate of @RocketDonkey's from a week ago, isn't it?

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