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[Ping]

Hey guys, I'm takin' another swing at this whole game programming thing.

I'm easing myself in with a basic shmup written in pygame, my tool of choice.

However, I've hit something of a snag: how do you instantiate objects on-the-fly?

What I mean is this: I need to be able to create "bullet" objects without having to worry about creating a predetermined number of them beforehand.

Same with enemies, really.

How do you guys handle this?

[Mr. Yes]

Been a while since I used Python, and I've never used Pygame before at all, but I think I've got it. Seems like you could create them by adding them into a list of bullets or enemies on the fly, and then loop through that list whenever you want to access each bullet or enemy, for example when you're drawing them all. (unless there's some Python specific way of doing this kind of thing, I completely forget everything about Python at this point)

[Ping]

Oh. Duh. I already loop through sprite lists anyhow; dunno why it didn't occur to me to just add them to a list.

Thanks.