pygame: draw() currently draws all sprites in a group. How can I just draw a specific one

Question

<Group(4 sprites)>

I have 4 sprites in a group they all ready to draw with the line,

stuff_to_draw.draw(screen)

They all currently draw at the same time.

Is it possible to do something like this

stuff_to_draw[0].draw(screen)

I've looked at

[https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/sprite.html#pygame.sprite.Group][1]

Although I cannot find any helpfull information about selecting a specific element in the group.

What am I trying to achieve?

The sprite group currently holds a answer sprite which consists of a location (x,y) and a image of the letter to blit.

Currently accross all maps the answer is blitted instead of on the current question. So I would like to be able to say on question one *stuff_to_draw[0]* then question two *stuff_to_draw[1]*.

Answer 1

First, add a self.type to your each of your sprites. Give it a value, such as self.type = 1 . Then call this when you want to draw a certain sprite or group of sprites:

for sprite in group: #Replace group with your sprite group
    if sprite.type == 1: #Or whatever type you want
        sprite.draw(screen)
    elif sprite.type == 2:
        sprite.draw(screen)
    #Etc...

Next, in your sprite class make sure you inherit from pygame.sprite.Sprite :

class my_sprite_class(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self):
        pygame.sprite.Sprite.__init__()
        #Etc...

    #Add this draw function so we can draw individual sprites
    def draw(self, screen):
        screen.blit(self.image, self.rect)

I forgot that individual sprites don't have a draw function, just the groups. @pmoleri @jackdh my bad

Please read this post here to get an idea of what the class can do.

If you have any more questions just comment below.

Answer 2

You could blit any individual sprite, but I don't recommend it. This would be the way:

sprite = stuff_to_draw.sprites()[0]
screen.blit(sprite.image, sprite.rect)

My recommendation is to keep in the Sprites Group what you want to draw at a moment, and keep the rest in a separate list or group.