In article <51255c8a.7090...@bigpond.com>, Phil <phil_...@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, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
