How to get the text cursor position in Windows?

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.

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)

It's possible, and not even that messy! Just use:

from ctypes import windll, wintypes, byref

def get_cursor_pos():
    cursor = wintypes.POINT()
    windll.user32.GetCursorPos(byref(cursor))
    return (cursor.x, cursor.y)

The answer using pyautogui made me wonder how that module was doing it, so I looked and this is how.

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)

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)

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

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.

I know this is an old thread, but have been having hard time figuring out how to do this with JUST the python standard libraries.

I think the code below will work to get the cursor position in a windows terminal:

import sys
import msvcrt

print('ABCDEF',end='')
sys.stdout.write("\x1b[6n")
sys.stdout.flush()
buffer = bytes()
while msvcrt.kbhit():
    buffer += msvcrt.getch()
hex_loc = buffer.decode()
hex_loc = hex_loc.replace('\x1b[','').replace('R','')
token = hex_loc.split(';')
print(f'  Row: {token[0]}  Col: {token[1]}')