How to flip sprite horizontal?

[Chunker120]

I have an animation in a top-down perspective, but I want the sprite to get flipped horizontal if the player faces east. The sprite class doesn't by default have any methods that would help me achieve that, so how would I go around flipping a sprite horizontally?

[Grimshaw]

sprite.scale(-1,1);

[lrx]

probably rotating sprite would be easiest

edit: nvm scaling is even easier then rotating

[Nexus]

edit: nvm scaling is even easier then rotating

The operations are not equivalent. Rotating by 180° won't give you the mirror image (the sprite looks upside down). The alternative to scaling is to set the texture rect using a negative width.

By the way, this has been asked many times, please use the forum search before posting.