Key Presses in Python

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Is it possible to make it appear to a system that a key was pressed  for example I need to  make A key be pressed thousands of times  and it is much to time consuming to do it manually  I would like to write something to do it for me  and the only thing I know well enough is Python   A better way to put it  I need to emulate a key press  I E  not capture a key press   More Info  as requested   I am running windows XP and need to send the keys to another application

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There s a solution  import pyautogui for i in range 1000       pyautogui typewrite  quot a quot

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If you re platform is Windows  I wouldn t actually recommend Python   Instead  look into Autohotkey   Trust me  I love Python  but in this circumstance a macro program is the ideal tool for the job   Autohotkey s scripting is only decent  in my opinion   but the ease of simulating input will save you countless hours   Autohotkey scripts can be  compiled  as well so you don t need the interpreter to run the script   Also  if this is for something on the Web  I recommend iMacros   It s a firefox plugin and therefore has a much better integration with websites   For example  you can say  write 1000  a s in this form  instead of  simulate a mouseclick at  319 400  and then press  a  1000 times    For Linux  I unfortunately have not been able to find a good way to easily create keyboard mouse macros

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import keyboard  keyboard press and release  anykey

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Alternative way to set prefer window into foreground before send key press event   hwnd   win32gui FindWindowEx 0 0 0   App title   win32gui SetForegroundWindow hwnd

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Install the pywin32 extensions  Then you can do the following   import win32com client as comclt wsh  comclt Dispatch  WScript Shell   wsh AppActivate  Notepad     select another application wsh SendKeys  a     send the keys you want   Search for documentation of the WScript Shell object  I believe installed by default in all Windows XP installations   You can start here  perhaps   EDIT  Sending F11   import win32com client as comctl wsh   comctl Dispatch  WScript Shell      Google Chrome window title wsh AppActivate  icanhazip com   wsh SendKeys   F11

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PyAutoGui also lets you press a button multiple times   pyautogui press  tab   presses 5      press TAB five times in a row  pyautogui press  A   presses 1000      press A a thousand times in a row

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Check This module keyboard with many features Install it  perhaps with this command     pip3 install keyboard   Then Use this Code     import keyboard keyboard write  A  delay 0    If you Want to write  A  multiple times  Then simply use a loop  Note   The key  A  will be pressed for the whole windows Means the script is running and you went to browser  the script will start writing there

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AutoHotKey is perfect for this kind of tasks  keyboard automation   remapping   Script to send  A  100 times   Send  A 100    That s all  EDIT  to send the keys to an specific application   WinActivate Word Send  A 100

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You could also use PyAutoGui to send a virtual key presses   Here s the documentation  https   pyautogui readthedocs org en latest   import pyautogui   pyautogui press  Any key combination     You can also send keys like the shift key or enter key with   import pyautogui  pyautogui press  shift     Pyautogui can also send straight text like so   import pyautogui  pyautogui typewrite  any text you want to type     As for pressing the  A  key 1000 times  it would look something like this   import pyautogui  for i in range 999       pyautogui press  a     alt-tab or other tasks that require more than one key to be pressed at the same time   import pyautogui    Holds down the alt key pyautogui keyDown  alt      Presses the tab key once pyautogui press  tab      Lets go of the alt key pyautogui keyUp  alt

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