pygame question

[Michael Bauers]

I borrowed the event loop from pygame's chimp example.  And they used 'is'
for some reason.  All I did was add the handler for K_r and made it look
like the other code in their loop.

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in message
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> "Michael Bauers" <me at michaelbauers.com> wrote in message
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> > I was curious as to why 'is K_SPACE' worked, but 'is K_r' did not.
> I had to
> > change the test for 'r' to ==.
> >
> > * code snippet *
> >             elif (event.type is KEYDOWN and event.key is
> >                K_SPACE):
> >                 # DO SOMETHING
> >             elif (event.type is KEYDOWN and
> >                   event.key == K_r):
> >                # DO SOMETHING ELSE
>
> I don't know about your question, but I do about eliminating redundant
> code 8-)
> I would redo as
>   elif event.type == KEYDOWN:
>     keyhit = event.key
>     if keyhit == K_SPACE: #do x
>     elif keyhit == K_r: # do y
>
> Should K_r be K_R?  What was your error message? (ie, what does 'not
> work' mean?)
>
> Terry J. Reedy
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