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.

keypress python
11 Answers

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}")
user_68990

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}
PabloG_3940

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.

Martin_W_141990

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
user_117865750 
import keyboard

keyboard.press_and_release('anykey')
user_147394390

There's a solution:

import pyautogui
for i in range(1000):
    pyautogui.typewrite("a")
user_151057790

You can use pyautogui module which can be used for automatically moving the mouse and for pressing a key. It can also be used for some GUI(very basic). You can do the following :- import pyautogui pyautogui.press('A') # presses the 'A' key

If you want to do it 1000 times, then you can use a while loop

Hope this is helpful :)

user_154962330

You can use this code that I wrote which will press “a” key 1000 times

import pyautogui 
loop = 1
while loop <= 1000: 
  pyautogui.press("a")
   loop += 1
user_161089710
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