🔒 Curses library, Ctrl + (Key) detection

[old pond]

Hi! I'm using curses to make a text editor-like program.
I'm using the getkey() function to read user input.
I want to program special features for key combinations, for example CTRL + Z to undo changes, but when I press that key combination and print its value, it gets ^Z , and something like if key == "^Z" does not work properly, and always just returns False.
With combinations like CTRL + ENTER, it gets CTL_ENTER and works just fine in if statements, unlike CTRL + (Any letter).
I can't find anything in the documentation and I'm not sure how to proceed.

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@old pond

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[old pond]

Yup figured it out.

For anyone in the future:

do whatever = ord(key), with key as your input value, and then print it to the screen, and just use the ascii value of ^Z and manually type it in!

Once you have the int ascii value of your weird character, do

if key == chr(whatever)

and it will just work 👍

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🔒 Curses library, Ctrl + (Key) detection