I'm trying to pass the event to another function and I need the key constant as a string. Is there a way to get it? pygame.key.name(ev.key) just gives me Up instead of K_UP I did try pygame.key.key_code(pygame.key.name(ev.key)) but looks like sdl2 doesn't have that function. Here's a very valid use case for it: I already have this function that gets the pressed button's key and does something with it, and it accepts a string. Since It's already working, I wanted to keep it simple and use the same function. def input(self, key): for i in self.moves: if key in i.keys: i.change("_correct") else: i.change("_wrong") self.next() return And I didn't come on saying: There should be a function to do this or that, I just asked if there's a way like getting the value from some dictionary that already exists. Continue reading...
