my pygame bullet sprites only fire once each time through loop. would like to fire multiple times - pygame

Question

i'm very new to coding, and i'm trying to get a ship to fire multiple bullets, but every time i push spacebar the bullet sort of re-triggers and doesn't make it to the end of the screen. it seems maybe only one instance of my Bullet class is called each time but i don't know how to fix it. here is the code i have going so far:
import sys
import pygame
from pygame.sprite import Sprite
class Sideship():
def __init__(self):
pygame.init()
self.screen = pygame.display.set_mode((1200,800))
self.screen_rect = self.screen.get_rect()
pygame.display.set_caption("Side Ship")
self.bg_color = (50, 50, 255)
self.bullets = pygame.sprite.Group()
self.jet = Jet()
def run_game(self):
self.jet.rect.x = -20
self.jet.rect.y = 290
self.bullet = Bullet()
while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
sys.exit()
if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
if event.key == pygame.K_DOWN:
self.jet.moving_down = True
if event.key == pygame.K_UP:
self.jet.moving_up = True
if event.key == pygame.K_SPACE:
self.new_bullet = Bullet()
self.bullets.add(self.new_bullet)
self.new_bullet.rect.x = self.jet.rect.x+200
self.new_bullet.rect.y = self.jet.rect.y+30
if event.type == pygame.KEYUP:
if event.key == pygame.K_DOWN:
self.jet.moving_down = False
if event.key == pygame.K_UP:
self.jet.moving_up = False
if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
if event.key == pygame.K_q:
sys.exit()
self.jet.update()
self.bullets.update()
self.screen.fill(self.bg_color)
self.bullets.update()
for bullet in self.bullets.sprites():
pygame.draw.rect(self.screen, self.new_bullet.bullet_color, self.new_bullet.rect)
self.screen.blit(self.jet.image, self.jet.rect)
pygame.display.flip()
class Jet():
def __init__(self):
self.image = pygame.image.load('jet.bmp')
self.rect = self.image.get_rect()
self.moving_down = False
self.moving_up = False
self.rect.y = float(self.rect.y)
self.rect.x = float(self.rect.x)
def update(self):
if self.moving_down and self.rect.bottom < 801:
self.rect.y += 1.9
if self.moving_up and self.rect.top > -14:
self.rect.y -= 1.4
class Bullet(Sprite):
def __init__(self,):
super().__init__()
self.bullet_width = 30
self.bullet_height = 5
self.bullet_color = (250,250,250)
self.rect = pygame.Rect(0,0, self.bullet_width, self.bullet_height)
def update(self):
self.rect.x += 4
side_ship = Sideship()
side_ship.run_game()

Answer 1

The issue is in the loop, which draws the bullets. When you iterate through the bullets, the current element is referenced by bullet. Hence, you have to draw bullet, rather than self.new_bullet:
pygame.draw.rect(self.screen, self.new_bullet.bullet_color, self.new_bullet.rect)
for bullet in self.bullets.sprites():
pygame.draw.rect(self.screen, bullet.bullet_color, bullet.rect)