Python Tkinter Animation

Question

Why is the animation not working? The shape doesn\'t move when I run the program.

from Tkinter import *
import time



class alien(object):
     def __init__(sel         


        

Answer 1

You never called the animation method. There were a couple of other naming issues.

# Assuming Python 2.x
# For Python 3.x support change print -> print(..) and Tkinter to tkinter
from Tkinter import *
import time

class alien(object):
     def __init__(self):
        self.root = Tk()
        self.canvas = Canvas(self.root, width=400, height = 400)
        self.canvas.pack()
        self.alien1 = self.canvas.create_oval(20, 260, 120, 360, outline='white',         fill='blue')
        self.alien2 = self.canvas.create_oval(2, 2, 40, 40, outline='white', fill='red')
        self.canvas.pack()
        self.root.after(0, self.animation)
        self.root.mainloop()

     def animation(self):
        track = 0
        while True:
            x = 5
            y = 0
            if track == 0:
               for i in range(0,51):
                    time.sleep(0.025)
                    self.canvas.move(self.alien1, x, y)
                    self.canvas.move(self.alien2, x, y)
                    self.canvas.update()
               track = 1
               print "check"

            else:
               for i in range(0,51):
                    time.sleep(0.025)
                    self.canvas.move(self.alien1, -x, y)
                    self.canvas.move(self.alien2, -x, y)
                    self.canvas.update()
               track = 0
            print track

alien()