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Reputation: 17

Is there a way to detect a key press in a python Replit?

I am making a chat app in Replit through Python. I have a while true loop that checks if a message has been posted and will check if you pressed the T key, and if so, pauses the loop to let you type and send your message. Because it is on replit, I cannot give root access.

I have tried using the keyboards module functions, like keyboard.is_pressed('t'), but that requires root access. I have looked through the docs there and have not found anything. I have also tried using the solutions in How to detect key presses?.

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Answers (2)

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Reputation: 17

I used the getKey Module for it:

from getkey import getkey
key = getkey()
if key == 't':

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Lorenzo Bassetti
Lorenzo Bassetti

Reputation: 945

I am not familiar with Replit, but, if you're on a Windows machine, you might solve it with :

import msvcrt

while True:
    # Check if a message has been posted
    # ...

    # Check if the 't' key has been pressed
    if msvcrt.kbhit():
        # Read the character from the keyboard
        ch = msvcrt.getch()
        if ch == b't':
            # Pause the loop and let the user type and send a message
            # ...

Not sure if it helps for your usecase, maybe for others. cheers.

Upvotes: 0

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