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Hi I'm trying to make a basic alien invasion game but when I try to load a ship image into the midbottom of the game screen I get an error. Here is the code I'm using to create the ship:

class Ship:
    """A class to manage the ship."""

    def __init__(self, ai_game):
        """Initialise the ship and its starting position."""
        self.screen = ai_game.screen
        self.screen_rect = ai_game.screen.get_rect()

        # Load the ship image and get its rect.
        self.image = pygame.image.load(r'C:\Users\djwil\Documents\python\python crash course\Projects\Alien invasion\Images\ship.bmp') 
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect
        # Start each new ship at the bottom of the screen.
        self.rect.midbottom = self.screen_rect.midbottom

    def blitme(self):
        """Draw the ship at its current location."""
        self.screen.blit(self.image, self.rect)

I'm then getting this error

Error:
 File "c:\Users\djwil\Documents\python\python crash course\Projects\Alien invasion\alien_invasion.py", line 41, in <module>
    ai = AlienInvasion()
  File "c:\Users\djwil\Documents\python\python crash course\Projects\Alien invasion\alien_invasion.py", line 22, in __init__
    self.ship = Ship(self)
  File "c:\Users\djwil\Documents\python\python crash course\Projects\Alien invasion\ship.py", line 15, in __init__
    self.rect.midbottom = self.screen_rect.midbottom
AttributeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object has no attribute 'midbottom'

But when I looked online at pygame tutorials it says that midbottom should be a built in attribute. Can someone help me with this please?

that means that your rect is not a pygame rect and the first thing i see is your get_rect method needs parenethesis

from

Quote:

self.rect = self.image.get_rect

to this

self.rect = self.image.get_rect()

Thanks, that's sorted it.