Issues with creating objects of classes in Python

Vincent W. :

I am trying to make a sword appear when I press the space bar and disappear when I hit key 5.

if event.type == pg.KEYUP:
                if event.key == pg.K_ESCAPE:
                    self.quit()
                if event.key == pg.K_SPACE:
                    self.sword = Sword(self, self.player.rect.centerx-7, self.player.rect.bottom, self.player)
                if event.key == pg.K_5:
                    self.sword.kill()

I can make the first sword appear and disappear without any issue, but when I try to press the spacebar again, I get this error message:

File "/Users/(User)/Desktop/ZeldaGame/sprites.py", line 183, in __init__
    self.image.set_colorkey(WHITE)
AttributeError: 'Sword' object has no attribute 'set_colorkey'

Here is my Sword class:

class Sword(pg.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, game, x, y, entity):
        self.groups = game.all_sprites
        pg.sprite.Sprite.__init__(self, self.groups)
        self.game = game
        self.image = self.game.sword
        self.image.set_colorkey(WHITE)
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        self.rect.x = x 
        self.rect.y = y 
        if entity.direction == 'down':
            self.image = pg.transform.rotate(self.image, -90)

        def update(self):
            kill()

Could anyone help me make the sword able to appear, disappear, and appear over and over again?

user10987432 :

Warning: I don't know anything about PyGame.

It seems as if game.sword initially, before the very first sword is created, is a pygame.Surface object - This is just a guess, because you didn't show that part of the code. (set_colorkey seems to be a pygame.Surface method, and by virtue of the fact that you can invoke Sword.__init__ the first time without any errors tells me that game.sword must initially be a pygame.Surface object, otherwise self.image.set_colorkey(WHITE) would raise an error).

Then, the second time you press the spacebar, game.sword will be refering to a Sword object, since you executed self.sword = Sword(... the first time you pressed the spacebar. You enter the second sword's __init__, but now game.sword refers to a Sword, not a pygame.Surface. Swords don't have a set_colorkey method, hence the error (I'm guessing pygame.Sprite does not inherit from pygame.Surface).