keyboard input won't work

[Chole01]

Environment:

i want to control my role's movement by press "a", "d", and i used "pygame.key.get_pressed()[pygame.K_d]:", but it won't work.

• Operating system (Windows 11)):
• Python version (3.12.2) :
• SDL version (2.28.3):
• PyGame version (2.5.2):

Current behavior:

it seems only receive arrow-key signal like :

"pygame.key.get_pressed()[pygame.K_RIGHT]"
"pygame.key.get_pressed()[pygame.K_LEFT]"

when i use those (K_RIGHT , K_LEFT), it dose work, but dysfunctional in "K_d" or other letters.

even if i write this:

def input():
    if pygame.key.get_pressed()[pygame.K_RIGHT]:
        print("right")
    elif pygame.key.get_pressed()[pygame.K_d]:
        print("d")

when i run this code, if i press right arrow key, it will give me "right", but when i press "d", i got nothing. even worse, after i pressed key_d, the whole input function turn into dysfunctional, which means now i press right arrow key, i also get nothing.

no error hint.

Expected behavior:

is there anyway can fix this problem?

Test code

If possible add a simple test program that shows the problem described in this report.

  import pygame
  import sys
  
  pygame.init()
  
  GameWindow = pygame.display.set_mode((1280,720))
  pygame.display.set_caption("test")
  
  def input():
      if pygame.key.get_pressed()[pygame.K_RIGHT]:
          print("right")
      elif pygame.key.get_pressed()[pygame.K_d]:
          print("d")
  while True:
      for event in pygame.event.get():
          if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
              pygame.quit()
              sys.exit()
          input()

[arteagajosepaul]

Instead of using pygame.K_d, you should use pygame.K_d + 32 to get the equivalent ASCII value.

You can try:

import pygame
import sys

pygame.init()

GameWindow = pygame.display.set_mode((1280, 720))
pygame.display.set_caption("test")

def input():
keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()

if keys[pygame.K_RIGHT]:
    print("right")
elif keys[pygame.K_d] or keys[pygame.K_RIGHT + 32]:
    print("d")

while True:
for event in pygame.event.get():
if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()

input()