Detect both CTRL simultaneously in pygame

Question

I try to detect if both CTRL is pressed simultaneously

import pygame
pygame.init()

screen = pygame.display.set_mode((100,100))

run = True
while run:

    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            run = False
        if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
            if event.key == pygame.K_RCTRL
                print("RIGHT CTRL pressed")
            if event.key == pygame.K_LCTRL
                print("LEFT CTRL pressed")

Also tried:

if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
    if pygame.key.get_mods() & pygame.KMOD_RCTRL:
        print("RIGHT CTRL pressed")
    if pygame.key.get_mods() & pygame.KMOD_LCTRL:
        print("LEFT CTRL pressed")

Also tried:

if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
    if pygame.key.get_mods() & pygame.KMOD_LCTRL and pygame.key.get_mods() & pygame.KMOD_RCTRL:
        print("LEFT & RIGHT CTRL pressed")

None of these worked.

Can someone help? Thanks.

They seem to be not detected at all. You can only press one at a time, if you have both hold done, no key events are produced for me. — MegaIng, May 17 '18 at 17:56
I've had a play around with this and been unable to detect simultaneous presses of the left and right control keys. Note also that the KEYDOWN `event` has a `mods` parameter so you needn't call `get_mods()` multiple times. It looks to me that when a duplicate mod key is pressed, it is ignored until all keys are released. — import random, May 17 '18 at 22:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 13 '20 at 06:41

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Replace KMOD_LCTRL with K_LCTRL

answered Dec 13 '20 at 06:41

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Detect both CTRL simultaneously in pygame

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