SyntaxError: multiple statements found while compiling a single statement

[Rustom Mody]

On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 12:12:06 PM UTC+5:30, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2016 02:51 pm, Cai Gengyang wrote:
> 
> > I defined both done and pygame in this piece of code, but now i get a new
> > error that i have never seen before, an AttributeError
> 
> AttributeError usually means you have the wrong kind of object:
> 
> py> mylist = {}  # oops, a dict not a list
> py> mylist.append(1)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'append'
> 
> 
> or sometimes you have the right object but misspelled the attribute or
> method:
> 
> py> mylist = []
> py> mylist.apend(1)  # oops, spelling error
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'apend'
> py> mylist.append(1)
> py> print(mylist)
> [1]
> 
> 
> 
> >>>> rect_x = 50
> >>>> rect_y = 50
> >>>> done = False
> >>>> pygame = True
> 
> Why have you defined pygame = True? Is that what the code on the website
> does?
> 
> My guess is that you are supposed to say:
> 
> import pygame
> 
> 
> 
> Why don't you try my suggestion of saving the code into a .py file, then
> using the File > Open command to open it?

One meta-suggestion: 
It may be that with python you can go further in less time than with
older languages like C++, Java etc.

But less time doesn’t mean no time — You still need to learn, to walk the 
learning curve

In short: Dont skimp on the tutorial: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/
even (especially) if you find the examples uninteresting/irrelevant