Print a Number

Part of the Python in a Game Window section of Coddy's Pygame journey. Lesson 3 of 33.

Text in quotes is printed as it is written. Leave the quotes out and Python works the value out first, then prints the answer:

print(640 * 480)
print("640 * 480")

The first line shows 307200. The second shows 640 * 480, because in quotes it is only text. In Python * means times, / means divided by, and + and - are plus and minus.

The window in these programs is 640 pixels wide and 480 tall: those are the two numbers in pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480)).

Challenge

Easy

Print how many pixels the window has.

Under print("The night begins"), add print(640 * 480), without quotes, so Python works the number out.
Leave set_mode((640, 480)) as it is.

Press Play: the Console shows 307200 under your message. Then Check.

Try it yourself

import pygame

pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480))
pygame.display.set_caption("Night Sky")
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

# Set things up here, before the game loop.
comet_x = 0
print("The night begins")

running = True
while running:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False

    # Change things here, once a frame.
    comet_x = comet_x + 3
    if comet_x > 700:
        comet_x = -60

    screen.fill((20, 24, 48))
    # Draw here, after the fill.
    pygame.draw.circle(screen, (240, 230, 160), (500, 110), 80)
    pygame.draw.circle(screen, (255, 255, 255), (comet_x, 300), 6)

    pygame.display.flip()
    clock.tick(60)

pygame.quit()