Read console input using pygame

Question

Is there anyway to use pygame to get input from the console, rather than having to display a separate window to get input? I\'m using pygame to track how long the keys on th

Answer 1

Pygame is designed for making (graphical) games, so it only captures key presses when there is a window displayed. As Ignacio said in his answer, reading from the command line and from another window are very different things.

If you want to create a command line application, try curses:

http://docs.python.org/library/curses.html

Unfortunately, it only works on Linux and Mac OS X.