On key press do xy just once

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    if (Input.action_press("key_left")):

in fixed process does nothing, is there a way to execute the if statement only on the key press and not execute it over and over while being pressed?

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This is a similar question, and a similar answer:

https://godotengine.org/qa/8760/disable-autoshot-on-keypress

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Monitoring for an event within func _input will work, as long as "key_left" if defined in your input map.

func _ready():
    set_process_input(true)

func _input(event):
    if event.is_action_pressed("key_left"): print("left key pressed")
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I use this utility:
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/4514#issuecomment-217495690

The development version has Input.is_action_just_pressed and Input.is_action_just_released if you don't care to work with non stable version.

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