Read arrow keys
Ned Deily
nad at acm.org
Wed Feb 20 22:36:24 EST 2013
In article <51255C8A.7090302 at bigpond.com>, Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com>
wrote:
> I'm attempting to put a simple remote control program together and to do
> so I need to check if the arrows are pressed. I could probably do this
> with pyqt4 but I'm looking for something simple to experiment with.
>
> Pygame looked like a suitable solution but the error message makes me
> think that pygame doesn't work from the console:
>
> "video system not initialized"
>
> Is there a simple way to read the direction keys within a while loop?
You don't say which o/s platform(s) you are interested in but, if they
are all unix-y and you don't mind running from a shell terminal session,
you could just use the venerable curses module in the Python standard
library.
http://docs.python.org/3/library/curses.html
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Ned Deily,
nad at acm.org
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