Incorporei uma figura matplotlib em um aplicativo Qt (PySide) e gostaria de responder a eventos de clique do mouse em combinação com teclas modificadoras (por exemplo, shift e controle). No código abaixo, usei o método canvas mpl_connect para conectar 'button_press_event' a um manipulador fictício que imprime o valor de event.key. Esse valor é sempre 'Nenhum' mesmo que eu pressione uma tecla modificadora durante o clique do mouse. Como posso obter o estado das chaves modificadoras em um manipulador de eventos do mouse matplotlib ao incorporar uma figura matplotlib em um aplicativo Qt?

Obrigado.

import sys

from PySide import QtGui, QtCore

from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg as FigureCanvas
from matplotlib.figure import Figure

class MplCanvas(FigureCanvas):
    """Class to represent the FigureCanvas widget"""
    def __init__(self):
        self.fig = Figure()        
        self.ax = self.fig.add_subplot(111)

        FigureCanvas.__init__(self, self.fig)
        FigureCanvas.setSizePolicy(self, QtGui.QSizePolicy.Expanding, QtGui.QSizePolicy.Expanding)
        FigureCanvas.updateGeometry(self)

        self.fig.canvas.mpl_connect('button_press_event',self._on_press)

    def _on_press(self,event):
        print( event.key )


class MplWidget(QtGui.QWidget):
    """Widget defined in Qt Designer"""
    def __init__(self, parent = None):
        QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self, parent)

        self.canvas = MplCanvas()

        self.vbl = QtGui.QVBoxLayout()
        self.vbl.addWidget(self.canvas)

        self.setLayout(self.vbl)


class Ui_MainWindow(object):
    def setupUi(self, MainWindow):
        MainWindow.setObjectName("MainWindow")
        MainWindow.resize(800, 600)
        self.centralwidget = QtGui.QWidget(MainWindow)
        self.centralwidget.setObjectName("centralwidget")
        self.verticalLayout = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(self.centralwidget)
        self.verticalLayout.setObjectName("verticalLayout")
        self.mpl = MplWidget(self.centralwidget)
        sizePolicy = QtGui.QSizePolicy(QtGui.QSizePolicy.Expanding, QtGui.QSizePolicy.Expanding)
        sizePolicy.setHorizontalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setVerticalStretch(0)
        sizePolicy.setHeightForWidth(self.mpl.sizePolicy().hasHeightForWidth())
        self.mpl.setSizePolicy(sizePolicy)
        self.mpl.setObjectName("mpl")
        self.verticalLayout.addWidget(self.mpl)
        MainWindow.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget)
        self.statusbar = QtGui.QStatusBar(MainWindow)
        self.statusbar.setObjectName("statusbar")
        MainWindow.setStatusBar(self.statusbar)

        self.retranslateUi(MainWindow)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(MainWindow)

    def retranslateUi(self, MainWindow):
        MainWindow.setWindowTitle(QtGui.QApplication.translate("MainWindow", "MainWindow", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))

class DesignerMainWindow(QtGui.QMainWindow, Ui_MainWindow):
    """Customization for Qt Designer created window"""
    def __init__(self, parent = None):
        super(DesignerMainWindow, self).__init__(parent)
        # setup the GUI --> function generated by pyuic4
        self.setupUi(self)


if __name__ == '__main__':

    # create the GUI application
    app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
    # instantiate the main window
    dmw = DesignerMainWindow()
    # show it
    dmw.show()
    # start the Qt main loop execution, exiting from this script
    # with the same return code of Qt application
    sys.exit(app.exec_())