How do I detect collision in pygame?

Question

I have made a list of bullets and a list of sprites using the classes below. How do I detect if a bullet collides with a sprite and then delete that sprite and the bullet?

#Define the sprite class
class Sprite:

    def __init__(self,x,y, name):
        self.x=x

        self.y=y

        self.image = pygame.image.load(name)

        self.rect = self.image.get_rect()

    def render(self):
        window.blit(self.image, (self.x,self.y))


# Define the bullet class to create bullets          
class Bullet:

    def __init__(self,x,y):
        self.x = x + 23
        self.y = y
        self.bullet = pygame.image.load("user_bullet.BMP")
        self.rect = self.bullet.get_rect()

    def render(self):
        window.blit(self.bullet, (self.x, self.y))

Answer 1

From what I understand of pygame you just need to check if the two rectangles overlap using the colliderect method. One way to do it is to have a method in your Bullet class that checks for collisions:

def is_collided_with(self, sprite):
    return self.rect.colliderect(sprite.rect)

Then you can call it like:

sprite = Sprite(10, 10, 'my_sprite')
bullet = Bullet(20, 10)
if bullet.is_collided_with(sprite):
    print('collision!')
    bullet.kill()
    sprite.kill()