I want to check if ANY key is pressed, is this possible?-CodePudding

How do I check if ANY key is pressed?

this is how I know to detect one key:

import keyboard  # using module keyboard
while True:  # making a loop
    if keyboard.is_pressed('a'):  # if key 'q' is pressed
        print('You Pressed A Key!')
        break  # finishing the loop

How do I check if any key (not just letters) is pressed? For example, if someone presses the spacebar it works, the same for numbers and function keys, etc.

CodePudding user response：

while True:
    # Wait for the next event.
    event = keyboard.read_event()
    if event.event_type == keyboard.KEY_DOWN:
        print(event.name) # to check key name

Press any key and get the key name.

CodePudding user response：

it can be done using the msvcrt module as the following:

import msvcrt

while True:
    if msvcrt.kbhit():
        key = msvcrt.getch()
        break

or the keyboard, although i am not sure of how of a good practice this code is:

import keyboard

while True:
    try:
        print(keyboard.read_key())
        break
    except:
        pass

if this is bad practice please informe me in the coments so i can mark it as unfavored

thankyou.

CodePudding user response：

On windows, you can use:

import msvcrt as m

m.getch()

Also you can check this stack thread's answer, it works with any OS.

from __future__ import print_function
import os
import platform

if platform.system() == "Windows":
    os.system("pause")
else:
    os.system("/bin/bash -c 'read -s -n 1 -p \"Press any key to continue...\"'")
    print()

Edit: Misread the question

CodePudding user response：

Correct solution in Windows is to use msvcrt Please check thread here: How to detect key presses?

I think somehow should be possible also with builtin input() command.

Have a nice day!