Hi, Imagine a game like Simon, where keystrokes are recorded and then matched against user input. How do we record the keystrokes? 1) Store it as a numeric value, corresponding to a "keyboard button id constant". So if the user presses 'a', we store 97. I don't like this because generally I prefer my files to be plain-text as much ass possible. Besides, what if a different version of pygame, or a version on a different machine, uses a different number for the letter 'a'? I would much prefer storee a string like 'a'. 1) Store it as a string. We can get these strings, e.g. by using the pygame.key.name function. but I don't know how to translate that string back into a pygame.constant. Many strings can be translated into a variable prefixed with pygame.constants.K_ -- in this case, pygame.constants.K_a. But many of the strings returned by pygame.key.name don't have this property: 'up' corresponds to K_UP (not K_up); 'delete' to K_DELETE; '/' to K_SLASH; etc. I've attached a script that computes the name for a given constant, as well as the K_ name, and prints both if they're different. In other words, is there a way to take the name given by pygame.key.name and return a numeric value for it, so that we can match it against user input? If not, is there a better string to keep track of? Ethan
#! /usr/bin/python
import pygame
pygame.init()
for c in dir(pygame.constants):
if not c.startswith("K_"): continue
name = pygame.key.name(getattr(pygame.constants, c))
name2 = c[2:].lower()
if name != name2: print name, name2
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