Working around a pygame trigonometry error

Question

I'm making a pygame game designed so that bullets will shoot in the direction of the mouse. I'm using a Class to define the bullets in a list like this:

class Bullet:
    def __init__(self,pos,speed,size):
        self.pos = pos
        self.speed = speed
        self.size = size
    def move(self):
        self.pos[0] = int(self.pos[0] + self.speed[0])
        self.pos[1] = int(self.pos[1] + self.speed[1])

I'm using this trigonometry function to get the vector of the angle in which I'm going to be shooting bullets.

def getUnitVector(x1, y1, x2, y2):
        delx = x2 - x1
        dely = y2 - y1
        m = math.sqrt(delx * delx + dely * dely)
        unit = (delx / m, dely / m)
        return unit
level = [

I'm not using angles because I have to work around a pygame rounding error. these are the variables I'm plugging into the function.

mousex, mousey = pygame.mouse.get_pos()
    startx = 50
    starty = 400
aim = getUnitVector(startx, starty, mousex, mouse

This how i'm handling the aim and making the bullets shoot from the start x,y

if pygame.mouse.get_pressed()[0]:
        if reload>10:
            bx = BULLETSPEED * aim[0]
            by = BULLETSPEED * aim[1]           
            bullet = Bullet([startx,starty], [bx,by],10)
            bullets.append(bullet)
            reload=0
        reload = reload + 1

I just want to let you know. I'm working on a school assignment and I will be learning more in depth about vectors and trig next unit so I don't really want to spend too much time learning this stuff right now :L . Also if you know any active python forums that might be more helpful in answer this question please comment. I cant find any. Thank you for your time.

I might just build a work-around by only allowing it to shoot if the mouse is within 20 pixels or something so the error is minimized.

Working around a pygame trigonometry error

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