my text won't blit to my display in pygame

Question

i am trying to make a score in the top left corner of my screen but it is returning an error.

i have searched it up online and followed the exact steps but still it returns an error.

def score(rounds):
    font = pygame.font.SysFont(None, 25)
    text = font.render(f'ROUND {rounds}', True, size=25)
    game_display.blit(text, (0,0))

render() takes no keyword arguments i have tried putting the True in as False but that didn't work. btw what does the middle argument True do?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 11 '19 at 07:35

When you see the following error:

render() takes no keyword arguments

it means, well, that the render function does not take keyword arguments.

Look at your code:

text = font.render(f'ROUND {rounds}', True, size=25)

You call render with a keyword argument.

Just don't do it. Don't use a keyword argument. It's as simple as that.

Also, the third parameter has to be a color-like object, so your code should look like this:

text = font.render(f'ROUND {rounds}', True, pygame.Color('orange'))

Some more notes:

render takes an optional 4th argument (a background color). The documentation of pygame wrongly shows it as keyword argument.
it's better to load your fonts once. Currently, you load the font everytime you call the score function
instead of the font module, consider using the freetype module, which can to everything the font module can, and much more

@BOBTHEBUILDER What are you passing as parameter? It has to be a valid tuple describing a colour, like `(200, 0, 100)`, or a `pygame.Color` instance — sloth, Jan 11 '19 at 09:38
The questioner probably doesn't know what a keyword argument is. Replace "size=25" with just 25. — Lindsay Fowler, Apr 27 '21 at 02:48

my text won't blit to my display in pygame

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