okay, so I am making a basic space-ship game.

I can't get rotation to work because it scrambles the bitmap, but that's for another question.Should I even use a gif? any other filetype suggestions?

back to the actual point here, so:

k = pygame.key.get_pressed()

yeah, self explanatory. this doesn't work, as it returns each key as pressed.

so, somewhere else:

d = k[pygame.K_d]

and another line:

print d

and another:

if d:

So, k returns as each key on the keyboard pressed.

d returns 0 indefinitely, whether or not d is pressed.

d is always 0.

the statement about d therefore is never true.

Why is this happening?