Reading Keyboard Scan Codes

[Francois Pinard]

[François Pinard]

> [...] I do not know if reading scan codes or key codes is easily done
> within X, nor on MS-Windows.  I would like finding or discovering recipes
> in this area.  So, please share your tricks in this area, if any! :-)

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> I'm assuming you can use the msvcrt module:

> >>> def getch():
> ...     import msvcrt
> ...     while not msvcrt.kbhit(): pass
> ...     return msvcrt.getch()
> ...
> >>> getch()
> 'a'
> >>>

This does not give scan codes (or key codes of some sort).  I would like
being able to detect, for example, if Ctrl is being held while Keypad-5
is entered, or any other such (possibly unusual) combination of keys.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard