OK, a final thanks to everyone, I got it working. Using rect.copy was a big change as I hadn't realised my cloning of the sprite would make two instances of the same instead of a new replica. I then changed my for-loop to alter just the x,y coords of each tail piece. I did try just moving the last tail to the previous head position, but that actually ended up more complex as I then needed to remember which piece I last moved, or i needed to start actually re-positioning items in the list as well so I always used the last item in the list.
I now need to tidy up my scrappy code structure. Cheers all. -- Sent from: http://pygame-users.25799.x6.nabble.com/
