I need help with a game in (turtle graphics - python)

[Peter Otten]

Kasper wrote:

> How can i make the score stop blinking

The following part

>     #draws the score on the screen
>     mypen.undo()
>     mypen.penup()
>     mypen.hideturtle()
>     mypen.setposition(-290, 310)
>     scorestring1 = (name1 + ": %s" + " points   ") %score1
>     scorestring2 = (name2 + ": %s" + " points") %score2
>     mypen.write(scorestring1 + scorestring2, False, align="left",
>     font=("Arial",14, "normal"))

of your code removes what was written before and then draws something new, 
hence the blinking. One easy improvement is to call the above only when the 
score has changed:

# untested
...
# outside the loop:
old_score1 = None
old_score2 = None
...


    # in the loop:
    if old_score1 != score1 or old_score2 != score2:
        mypen.undo()
        mypen.penup()
        mypen.hideturtle()
        mypen.setposition(-290, 310)
        scorestring1 = (name1 + ": %s" + " points   ") %score1
        scorestring2 = (name2 + ": %s" + " points") %score2
        mypen.write(scorestring1 + scorestring2, False, align="left",
            font=("Arial",14, "normal"))

        # make sure the if-suite is not executed again 
        # unless there was a change
        old_score1 = score1
        old_score2 = score2

> and how can i make a high score table, in this game made with python? 

You can store the (score, name) pairs in a file that you update when the 
program terminates. Do you know how to read/write a file? 

Given a file containing

10 Jim
13 Sue
5 Dave

you can use the split() method break a line into the score and the name, and 
int() to convert the score from a string to an integer.

When you put the entries into a list it is easy to sort them in reverse 
order:

>>> highscores = [(10, "Jim"), (13, "Sue"), (5, "Dave")]
>>> for score, name in sorted(highscores, reverse=True):
...     print("%3d %s" % (score, name))
... 
 13 Sue
 10 Jim
  5 Dave