Detect key input in Python

Question

In 2013  I don t know why Python is that weird  you can t find this by searching in google very easily  but it s quite simple   How can I detect  SPACE  or actually any key  How can I do this   print  You pressed  s    key    This should be included in python core  so please do not link modules not related for core python

User · Answer

use the builtin   no need for tkinter  s   input  - gt  gt    print s    what you just typed   now use if s

User · Answer

You could make a little Tkinter app   import Tkinter as tk  def onKeyPress event       text insert  end    You pressed  s n     event char      root   tk Tk   root geometry  300x200   text   tk Text root  background  black   foreground  white   font   Comic Sans MS   12   text pack   root bind   lt KeyPress gt    onKeyPress  root mainloop

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Key input is a predefined event  You can catch events by attaching event sequence s  to event handle s  by using one or multiple of the existing binding methods bind  bind class  tag bind  bind all   In order to do that    define an event handle method pick an event event sequence  that fits your case from an events list   When an event happens  all of those binding methods implicitly calls the event handle method while passing an Event object  which includes information about specifics of the event that happened  as the argument   In order to detect the key input  one could first catch all the   lt KeyPress gt   or   lt KeyRelease gt   events and then find out the particular key used by making use of event keysym attribute   Below is an example using bind to catch both   lt KeyPress gt   and   lt KeyRelease gt   events on a particular widget root    try                           In order to be able to import tkinter for     import tkinter as tk      either in python 2 or in python 3 except ImportError      import Tkinter as tk   def event handle event         Replace the window s title with event type  input key     root title          format str event type   event keysym     if   name         main         root   tk Tk       event sequence     lt KeyPress gt       root bind event sequence  event handle      root bind   lt KeyRelease gt    event handle      root mainloop

User · Answer

Use Tkinter there are a ton of tutorials online for this  basically  you can create events  Here is a link to a great site  This makes it easy to capture clicks  Also  if you are trying to make a game  Tkinter also has a GUI  Although  I wouldn t recommend Python for games at all  it could be a fun experiment  Good Luck

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