Pygame moving rectangle

Question

I am coding a snake game with pygame for Python 3.6 and wonder how I can make the snake move all the time, changing direction when buttons right, down, left and up pressed, like in the real snake game.

Answer 1

This is actually very simple. You don't want to zero out the velocity on frames but only change it.

speed = (0, 0)

while not done:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            sys.exit()
        if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
            if event.key == pygame.K_LEFT:
                speed = (-10, 0)
            if event.key == pygame.K_RIGHT:
                speed = (10, 0)
            if event.key == pygame.K_UP:
                speed = (0,-10)
            if event.key == pygame.K_DOWN:
                speed = (0, 10)

    snake.position.x += speed[0]
    snake.position.y += speed[1]

As you can see, the speed is changed when a button is pressed, and the speed stays constant until a new button is pressed. You can replace the 10s with a speed variable.