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From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Read arrow keys
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:36:24 -0800
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In article <51255C8A.7090302@bigpond.com>, Phil <phil_lor@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

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org