Comments on: xkcd “Self-Description” solved with python+pygame

By: philhassey

philhassey — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:13:27 +0000

smoothscale is in the latest pygame, so yeah, older builds of it won’t have it.

Thanks for taking screenshots

By: Ariel

Ariel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:32:36 +0000

Sorry, about the double post. Delete the first one.

I changed smoothscale to scale and it ran, and I made this sequence of images, so people who don’t have phygame, etc, can see it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1054079

By: gislan

gislan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:35:13 +0000

Ariel: you need to update your python-pygame package. I had same problem, “apt-get update; apt-get install python-pygame” fixed the problem (unstable)

By: Ariel

Ariel — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:19:52 +0000

When I run it I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “main.py”, line 88, in
main()
File “main.py”, line 62, in main
screen.blit(pygame.transform.smoothscale(pygame.image.load(‘xkcdLogo.png’),(SW,SH)),(0,0)) # 4 iterations
AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘smoothscale’

I’m on debian, I could not find any package with a file called smoothscale.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:19:37 +0000

When I run it I get:

I’m on debian, I could not find any package with a file called transform.

By: Shad Sharma

Shad Sharma — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:43:20 +0000

Very interesting.

Just a note for Ubuntu users. You need pygame installed:
# aptitude install python-pygame

By: Simon Hibbs

Simon Hibbs — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:14:58 +0000

I particularly like the way the two label lines into the pie chart exactly cancel each other out so the pie chart remains correct.

By: Tenoch

Tenoch — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:00:18 +0000

Ahah brilliant!