How to efficiently hold a key in Pygame?

Question

I\'ve found two related questions:

• Pygame hold key down causes an infinite loop
• pygame - on hold button down

But I want to be specific. H

Answer 1

I am using a different approach on holding down a key that I am using in the specific task of moving an object left or right.

I do not care about the computer knowing that a key is actually held down.

When I press a key, a variable that I define for that key (EG: left arrow) is set to True. Until that key is unpressed (with the event pygame.KEYUP) the "movement to left" is performed.