How can you print the specific key pressed to the console in Pygame?

Question

I am stuck on this. I am trying to output the specific key pressed to the console, but at the moment all of the keys pressed output "2". Help would be greatly appreciated!

import pygame
pygame.init()

s = pygame.display.set_mode((640, 480))

running = True
while running:
    for e in pygame.event.get():
        if e.type == pygame.QUIT: #The user closed the window!
            running = False #Stop running
    # Logic goes here

        if e.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
            print(e.type)

pygame.quit()

Answer 1

You are printing the type of event (KEYDOWN), so you always get the same output.

The keyboard events KEYDOWN and KEYUP (see pygame.event module) create a pygame.event.Event object with additional attributes. The key that was pressed can be obtained from the key attribute (e.g. K_RETURN , K_a) and the mod attribute contains a bitset with additional modifiers (e.g. KMOD_LSHIFT). The unicode attribute provides the Unicode representation of the keyboard input.
A user friendly name of a key can be get by pygame.key.name():

running = True
while running:
    for e in pygame.event.get():
        if e.type == pygame.QUIT:
            running = False

        elif e.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
            
            # print key
            print(e.key)

            # print unicode representation
            print(e.unicode)

            # print user firendly name
            print(pygame.key.name(e.key))