WangXin writes (excerpted):
I got a confusing error from the Python 3.4 (command line - 64 bit), it shows me this: "NameError: name 'collided_left is not defined'" , I have checked my code over and over again and I can't find the error. Could you help me to check my code when convenient?
These sort of errors are (luckily) fairly easy to figure out. Any time you see an error about something not being defined (and you're sure you've got the spelling correct) you can usually trace it back to a mistake in how you have indented your code.
Here's a relevant example from the book:
In this code, you can see that "class Coords" and "def within_x" have the same indentation (they're both at the left margin). Now if we look at the code you've entered, with visible whitespace, you can hopefully see the difference:
Your within_x, within_y and collided_ functions are all indented to the same level as the __init__ function of the Coords class -- in short, Python looks at them and thinks: "those are indented the same as the init for the class, therefore they must be member functions of the same class".
So, if you fix the indentation, I think you'll find your code suddenly works as expected:
