scancodes

The struct SDL_Keysym has SDL_Scancode and SDL_Keycode members. What is the difference between them? The documentation does not really clear it up for me. I tried both and they seem to do the same thing. See the SDL documentation . Scancodes represent the physical position of the keys, modeled after a standard QWERTY keyboard, while Keycodes are the character obtained by pressing the key. On an AZERTY keyboard, pressing A will emit a 'Q' scancode and an 'a' keycode. Generally, scancode s are the true values emitted by the keyboard (hardware) to the OS while keycode is what the OS/library maps

Is there a way in Tkinter to bind a combination of keys that will work in all keyboard layouts? (bind by scancode) For example, I need 'Control-Z' binding that will work with the same physical key in the lower left corner of the keyboard in all layouts, such as: * Russian layout, * Greek layout, etc. Here's what I tried: from Tkinter import * root=Tk() def f(event): print 'undo' button1=Button(root, text=u'Button') button1.pack() button1.bind('<Control-z>', f) root.mainloop() It doesn't work for Russian and Greek keyboard layouts. Update-2: I did some more experiments with Windows and now the