[Tutor] Fwd: circular movement in pygame

[Alan Gauld]

On 29/04/15 08:15, diliup gabadamudalige wrote:

> 1. x = some code
>
> That is what I used and it worked. I was trying to find how we can do the
> same thing by updating the current position by doing
>
> 2. x += some code
>   Above 1 works. 2 does not. Why is that?


Because they do completely different things!

1 is simply

x = some code

2 is

x = x + some code

In 2 you are adding x to some code.

Of course they don't work the same.

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