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

how about;

from Tkinter import *

wn = Tk()
wn.title('KeyDetect')

m = 0

def down(e):
    if m == 0:
        print 'Down\n', e.char, '\n', e
        global m
        m = 1

def up(e):
    if m == 1:
        print 'Up\n', e.char, '\n', e
        global m
        m = 0

wn.bind('', down)
wn.bind('', up)

wn.mainloop()

now it won't repeat.