Can you capture Key-Release events in Tkinter?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Nick Perkins wrote:
> I am trying to make a little interactive game using
> Tkinter Canvas widget.  (Python 2.0 - win NT - PythonWin..)
>
> It seems that only KeyPress events are available, and not key-release
> events. Is this a limitation of Tk itself, or a limitation of Tkinter, or is
> there a way to do it?

this works for me:

from Tkinter import *

c = Canvas()
c.pack()

# make sure we see all keyboard events
c.focus_set()

def release(event):
    print "release", event.keysym
c.bind("<KeyRelease>", release)

mainloop()

Cheers /F