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LittleMew
LittleMew

Reputation: 23

Unexpected Behaviour When using Keyboard.read_key()

I am tying to make a program in which I press certain hot key which will then detect a key press and tell which key I pressed but whenever I press the hotkey, program doesn't respond to any keypress even the escape key and keeps running.

import keyboard


def dostuff():
    print("Mew")
    key = keyboard.read_key()
    print('I have detected', type(key))


keyboard.add_hotkey('a', lambda: dostuff())
keyboard.wait('esc')

Can anyone tell what's the issue?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 556

Answers (1)

Praveen
Praveen

Reputation: 106

If you dont want to use the keyboard module, you can use pynput, which does the same thing,

install pynput using pip

pip install pynput

here is the code:-

from pynput import keyboard

def on_press(key):
    try:
        print('alphanumeric key {0} pressed'.format(
            key.char))
    except AttributeError:
        print('special key {0} pressed'.format(
            key))

def on_release(key):
    print('{0} released'.format(
        key))
    if key == keyboard.Key.esc:
        # Stop listener when esc key is pressed
        return False

# Collect events until released
with keyboard.Listener(
        on_press=on_press,
        on_release=on_release) as listener:
    listener.join()

Upvotes: 1

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