"Ajith Gopinath" <qbits...@gmail.com> wrote
how do we represent left arrow key in a python program?
Can anybody help?
That depends entirely on your terminal/environment.
If you are using a Unix terminal it will be diffeent to using
a Mac or a PC.
You can write a program to display the key code of any
key using curses on *nix or msvcrt on Windows. Here
is an example from my web tutor under the Event Driven
Programming topic...
import msvcrt
def doKeyEvent(key):
if key == '\x00' or key == '\xe0': # non ASCII
key = msvcrt.getch() # fetch second character
print ord(key),
def doQuitEvent(key):
raise SystemExit
# First, clear the screen of clutter then warn the user
# of what to do to quit
lines = 25 # set to number of lines in console
for line in range(lines): print
print "Hit space to end..."
print
# Now mainloop runs "forever"
while True:
ky = msvcrt.getch()
length = len(ky)
if length != 0:
# send events to event handling functions
if ky == " ": # check for quit event
doQuitEvent(ky)
else:
doKeyEvent(ky)
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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