How to make Tkinter run in the background or make it handle keypress events outside of the Tkinter window?

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The idea is that when the user presses the key combination Ctrl+P, Tkinter starts processing keyboard/mouse events regardless of which window is open.

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You could use the keyboard module it will get the key even if you minimize the window.

Because inside Tkinter using a loop is not a good practice. This is why I use the root.after method to make a loop.

from tkinter import *
import keyboard

root = Tk()

def loop():

    if keyboard.is_pressed(hotkey='ctrl+p'):
        print('yes')
    root.after(100,loop) # edited
loop()
root.mainloop()
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