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I'm rendering some text on a screen and I want to draw a box behind acting as background. Text is a surface if I know correctly, so you call get_rect() to get it's coordinates, width and height. So when I print(my_text_surface.get_rect()) I get this:

rect(0, 0, 382, 66)>

By this information I assume I can write:

my_suface.get_rect(1)

and get it's x coordinate. But then it's says:

get_rect only accepts keyword arguments

So I'm asking you here if get_rect() can get me a list and, if yes how can I access it?

If you need my code:

font = self.pygame.font.Font("freesansbold.ttf", 64)

spadenpala_text = font.render("Spadenpala", True, (255, 255, 255))
spadenpala_text_position = spadenpala_text.get_rect(center=(self.width/2, 200))
print(spadenpala_text.get_rect([1]))

Thanks, Mirko Dolenc

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pygame.Surface.get_rect() doesn't return a list, but a pygame.Rect object:

Returns a new rectangle covering the entire surface.

pygame.Surface.get_rect() returns a rectangle with the size of the Surface object, that always starts at (0, 0) since a Surface object has no position. A Surface is blit at a position on the screen. The position of the rectangle can be specified by a keyword argument. For example, the center of the rectangle can be specified with the keyword argument center. These keyword argument are applied to the attributes of the pygame.Rect before it is returned (see pygame.Rect for a full list of the keyword arguments).
A pygame.Rect object has a lot of virtual attributes like .x, .y, .width, .height etc. e.g.:

surf = pygame.Surface((100, 50))
rect = surf.get_rect(center = (200, 200))
print(rect)
print(rect.x)
print(rect.y)
print(rect.width)
print(rect.height)

output:

<rect(150, 175, 100, 50)>
150
175
100
50
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