pygame get event key code

Question

for event in pygame.event.get():
    if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN or event.type == pygame.KEYUP:
        print (event)

When I pressed arrow up this was the output:

<Event(2-KeyDown {'unicode': '', 'key': 273, 'mod': 0, 'scancode': 111})>

What is the syntax to access the dict? I want just to print the key key value from this dict. Any ideas?

Answer 1

To get the value of the key that triggered the pygame.KEYDOWN event, just use event.key to get the value. Currently you're printing the pygame.Event object, but not the key of the event. Try the following:

for event in pygame.event.get():
    if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN or event.type == pygame.KEYUP:
        print(event.key)