I need to know which key is being pressed right now. I’m not looking to capture some specific keys to trigger an event or anything like that,
I want to know which keys are pressed now and display a list of them.
I also need to capture special keys like F1 … F12, shift, alt, home, windows, etc. Basically all keys on the keyboard.
How do I do this in python? How do I capture keyboard events?
Related
- Cross platform keylogger
- Is there a cross-platform python low-level API to capture or generate keyboard events?
EDIT
Just so you know I’m not trying to make a keylogger. I’m trying to make a diagnoses tool (I split water on my laptop and the keyboard is starting to get crazy sometime!!)
Answers:
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Method 1
PyKeylogger mentioned in the related question might do the job.
Method 2
The easiest way to do something like this, if you’re not too fussy, is to bring in a GUI toolkit such as pygame or wxPython. For example, run the wxPython Demo, then go to the demo for KeyEvents.
Method 3
I found the answer using a link in a related question to pyHook:
pyHook tutorial: capturing keypress events
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