TypeError: 'int' object has no attribute '__getitem__'

Question

I'm trying to make a play surface out of rects in pygame. I'm not sure what the problem is exactly but I believe it has something to do with the actual iteration of the list when creating the rects. Sorry, noob here. :)

import pygame

w = 800
h = 600
board_pos = 0, 0
tile = 27
playfield = 0

class Board(object):
    def __init__(self, surface, pos, tile_size):
        self.surface = surface
        self.x, self.y = pos
        self.tsize = tile_size
        self.color = 50, 50, 50

        playfield = [list(None for i in xrange(22)) for i in xrange(10)]  

    def draw(self):
        for i in xrange(10):
            for j in xrange(22):
                playfield[i][j] = pygame.draw.rect(self.surface, self.color,
                                                  (self.x + (i * self.tsize),
                                                   self.y + (j * self.tsize),
                                                   self.tsize, self.tsize))

pygame.display.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((w, h))

board = Board(screen, board_pos, tile)
board.draw()

while __name__ == '__main__':
    pygame.display.flip()

I keep getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My
Documents\Dropbox\Programming\DeathTris
\test2.py", line 30, in <module>
    board.draw()
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My
Documents\Dropbox\Programming\DeathTris
\test2.py", line 24, in draw
    self.tsize, self.tsize))
TypeError: 'int' object has no attribute '__getitem__'

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Your line playfield = [list(None for i in xrange(22)) for i in xrange(10)] creates a local variable inside the __init__ function. That variable disappears after the __init__ function returns. Later in draw when you do playfield[i][j] , you are accessing the global value of playfield , which is still 0 (since you initialized it to 0 at the beginning).

If you want to overwrite the global playfield from inside your __init__ , you need to do global playfield before you assign to it. (But. . . why are you using a global variable for this anyway?)