Is there a way to know what key was pressed in Python?

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I am trying to make it so the key I press assigns itself to a variable. Like so I would click s and the variable would equal "s". How would I do this?

What I have tried:

if keys[pygame.K_q]:
                letter1 = "Q"

I don't want to do this for all 26 letters because it's very inefficient.

Posted 4-Jul-21 17:22pm

Just Coookie

Updated 4-Jul-21 21:25pm

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2021-07-04T19:23:00

Solution 1

You wouldn't use 26 different variables to hold these values you click. You would normally use an array to hold the values.

I'd be more specific, but your question isn't very clear about what you're doing.

Posted 4-Jul-21 19:23pm

Dave Kreskowiak

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2021-07-04T21:25:00

Solution 2

You should study the Pygame documentation to see how it handles keyboard input: Pygame Front Page — pygame v2.0.1.dev1 documentation[^].

Posted 4-Jul-21 21:25pm

Richard MacCutchan