TkInter keypress, keyrelease events

Question

I understood that the Tk keypress and keyrelease events were supposed only to fire when the key was actually pressed or released?

However with the following simple c

Answer 1

Ok some more research found this helpful post which shows this is occuring because of X's autorepeat behaviour. You can disable this by using

os.system('xset r off')

and then reset it using "on" at the end of your script. The problem is this is global behaviour - not just my script - which isn't great so I'm hoping someone can come up with a better way.