While loops don't work

Question

My problem is the menu, It shows "Press space to play!" But when i press it, it doesn't work! I think its a problem with the while loops I can't display code correctly so here's a link to my code https://github.com/Donutoftime44/nheon-shooter I tried putting if statements in my code like

while not done:
  if menu:
    ...
  elif not menu:
    ...

But it still does'nt work! Can someone help me?

Answer 1

You have

   while menu:
      for event in pg.event.get():
        if event.type == QUIT:
          pg.quit()
          sys.exit()
        if event.type == KEYUP:
          if event.key == K_SPACE:
            print "playing"
            done = True

Because you never change menu the loop never breaks, I believe you may want to add menu = False in if event.key == K_SPACE:

Answer 2

Assuming you're talking about this portion of the code:

while menu:
  for event in pg.event.get():
    if event.type == QUIT:
      pg.quit()
      sys.exit()
    if event.type == KEYUP:
      if event.key == K_SPACE:
        print "playing"
        done = True
  windowdisplay.fill(colors["gray"])
  windowdisplay.blit(label, ((maxx / 2) - 100, maxy - 25))
  pg.display.update()

It seems like you want to end the loop when the user presses space. In which case, you need:

if event.key == K_SPACE:
    menu = False

Setting done equal to True does nothing, since done doesn't appear anywhere else in your code.