I'm a beginner and I'm having some trouble setting up a defined function in pygame. Here's the code:

import random, pygame, sys, time
from pygame.locals import *
pygame.init()
WINDOWWIDTH=600
WINDOWHEIGHT=600
TEXTCOLOR=255,255,255
BACKGROUNDCOLOR=0,0,0
windowSurface=pygame.display.set_mode((int(WINDOWWIDTH/2), int(WINDOWHEIGHT/2)),0,32)
Stren=0
End=0
Dev=0
Awar=0
Int=0
Wil=0
Agi=0
Luk=0
att=[Stren, End, Dev, Awar, Int, Wil, Agi, Luk]
def displayText(text, font, surface, x, y):
textobj=pygame.font.render(text, font, TEXTCOLOR)
textrect=textobj.get_rect()
textrect.topleft=(x, y)
surface.blit(textobj, textrect)
displayText('''From where dost thou hail?
1)Caresh
2)Tenin
3)Heartlands
4)Swamplands
5)Sub-Tenin Desert''', None, windowSurface, (WINDOWWIDTH/2), (WINDOWHEIGHT/2))

And here's the resultant error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Python Prog/CharRolling.py", line 31, in <module>
5)Sub-Tenin Desert''', None, windowSurface, (WINDOWWIDTH/2), (WINDOWHEIGHT/2))
File "C:/Python Prog/CharRolling.py", line 21, in displayText
textobj=pygame.font.render(text, font, TEXTCOLOR)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'render'

I've got no idea why this won't work. I was following some instructions from a python programming lesson book (as far as the def statement is concerned). Please help me.

This seems to do something, it still needs work. I also cleaned it up a bit.

Notice how some extra spaces and empty lines make it more readable.

import random, pygame, sys, time
from pygame.locals import *

pygame.init()

WINDOWWIDTH =600
WINDOWHEIGHT =600
TEXTCOLOR = (255, 255, 255)
BACKGROUNDCOLOR = (0, 0, 0)

windowSurface = pygame.display.set_mode((int(WINDOWWIDTH/2), int(WINDOWHEIGHT/2)), 0, 32)

Stren = 0
End   = 0
Dev   = 0
Awar  = 0
Int   = 0
Wil   = 0
Agi   = 0
Luk   = 0
att = [Stren, End, Dev, Awar, Int, Wil, Agi, Luk]

def displayText(text, fontname, surface, x, y):
    textfont = pygame.font.Font(fontname, 15)   # this line was missing, I also renamed a few variables
    textobj  = textfont.render(text, True, TEXTCOLOR, BACKGROUNDCOLOR)
    # textrect = textobj.get_rect()  you don't need this
    surface.blit(textobj, (x, y))

# Moved your ugly multi-line string a bit out of the way
# It fails to render properly, as pygame cannot move to the next line.
# Instead, draw each line separately
lines = '''From where dost thou hail?
1)Caresh
2)Tenin
3)Heartlands
4)Swamplands
5)Sub-Tenin Desert'''

# You need to catch events, and loop, or your screen is about 0.01 seconds visible.
while True:
    windowSurface.fill(BACKGROUNDCOLOR)

    displayText(lines, None, windowSurface, 0, 0)
    #(WINDOWWIDTH/2), (WINDOWHEIGHT/2)  fails, as the window is also that size

    pygame.display.flip()

    event = pygame.event.wait()
    if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
        break

Thanks for doing that for me.

Edit: Just punched it in, works great now! I did need the textrect=textobj.get_rect() function though.