Getting cursor position in Python

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Is it possible to get the overall cursor position in Windows using the standard Python libraries

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Using the standard ctypes library  this should yield the current on screen mouse coordinates without any third party modules   from ctypes import windll  Structure  c long  byref   class POINT Structure        fields       x   c long     y   c long      def queryMousePosition        pt   POINT       windll user32 GetCursorPos byref pt       return    x   pt x   y   pt y    pos   queryMousePosition   print pos    I should mention that this code was taken from an example found here So credit goes to Nullege com for this solution

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This could be a possible code for your problem     Note you  need to install PyAutoGUI for it to work   import pyautogui w   pyautogui position   x mouse   w x y mouse   w y print x mouse  y mouse

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For Mac using native library  import Quartz as q q NSEvent mouseLocation     x and y individually q NSEvent mouseLocation   x q NSEvent mouseLocation   y  If the Quartz-wrapper is not installed  python3 -m pip install -U pyobjc-framework-Quartz   The question specify Windows  but a lot of Mac users come here because of the title

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Prerequisites  Install Tkinter  I ve included the win32api for as a Windows-only solution   Script     usr bin env python     Get the current mouse position      import logging import sys  logging basicConfig format    asctime s   levelname s   message s                       level logging DEBUG                      stream sys stdout    def get mouse position                Get the current position of the mouse       Returns     -------     dict           With keys  x  and  y              mouse position   None     import sys     if sys platform in   linux    linux2            pass     elif sys platform     Windows           try              import win32api         except ImportError              logging info  win32api not installed               win32api   None         if win32api is not None              x  y   win32api GetCursorPos               mouse position     x   x   y   y      elif sys platform     Mac           pass     else          try              import Tkinter    Tkinter could be supported by all systems         except ImportError              logging info  Tkinter not installed               Tkinter   None         if Tkinter is not None              p   Tkinter Tk               x  y   p winfo pointerxy               mouse position     x   x   y   y          print  sys platform  platform  is unknown  Please report                  format platform sys platform           print sys version      return mouse position  print get mouse position

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I found a way to do it that doesn t depend on non-standard libraries    Found this in Tkinter  self winfo pointerxy

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win32gui GetCursorPos point    This retrieves the cursor s position  in screen coordinates - point    x y   flags  hcursor   x y    win32gui GetCursorInfo     Retrieves information about the global cursor   Links    http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms648389 VS 85  aspx http   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms648390 VS 85  aspx   I am assuming that you would be using python win32 API bindings or pywin32

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Use pygame  import pygame  mouse pos   pygame mouse get pos     This returns the x and y position of the mouse    See this website  https   www pygame org docs ref mouse html pygame mouse set pos

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You will not find such function in standard Python libraries  while this function is Windows specific  However if you use ActiveState Python  or just install win32api module to standard Python Windows installation you can use   x  y   win32api GetCursorPos

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If you re doing automation and want to get coordinates of where to click  simplest and shortest approach would be  import pyautogui  while True      print pyautogui position     This will track your mouse position and would keep on printing coordinates

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Using pyautogui  To install   pip install pyautogui  and to find the location of the mouse pointer  import pyautogui print pyautogui position      This will give the pixel location to which mouse pointer is at

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa deadsnakes sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python3 5 python3 5-tk   or 2 7  3 6 etc   sudo apt-get install python2 7 python2 7-tk     mouse position py import Tkinter p Tkinter Tk   print p winfo pointerxy     Or with one-liner from the command line    python -c  import Tkinter  p Tkinter Tk    print p winfo pointerxy      1377  379

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