Keyboard Input In Pygame

There are 2 different ways of getting keyboard input:

1. pygame.key
2. event loop

1. pygame.key

• great when using seperate controls inside classes. >pygame.key.get_pressed() – returns an object that contains all the buttons and their states

keys = pygame.key.get_pressed() # stores the obj in the keys dictionary
# keys[pygame.K_SPACE] --> returns either 0 or 1
if keys[pygame.K_SPACE]: print("jump")

Event Loop

• have a little bit more control over the controls compared to pygame.key

1. check if any button was pressed
2. work with a specific key

if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN: #triggers when a key is pressed
    print("key Down")

if event.type == pygame.KEYUP: # triggers when a pressed key is released
    print("key Up")

if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
    if event.key == pygame.K_SPACE:
        print("jump")

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