How to know if the left mouse click is pressed

Question

I am using PyAutoGUI library. How can I know if the left mouse button is pressed?

This is what I want to do:

if(leftmousebuttonpressed):
   print("left")
else:
   print("nothing")

Answer 1

(I'm the author of PyAutoGUI.) I can confirm that currently PyAutoGUI can't read/record clicks or keystrokes. These features are on the roadmap, but there aren't any resources or timelines dedicated to them currently.

Answer 2

How to know if left mouse click is pressed?

A simple version of the code inspired from the original documentation:

from pynput import mouse

def on_click(x, y, button, pressed):
    if button == mouse.Button.left:
        print('{} at {}'.format('Pressed Left Click' if pressed else 'Released Left Click', (x, y)))
        return False # Returning False if you need to stop the program when Left clicked.
    else:
        print('{} at {}'.format('Pressed Right Click' if pressed else 'Released Right Click', (x, y)))

listener = mouse.Listener(on_click=on_click)
listener.start()
listener.join()

Like Sir Al Sweigart mentioned in the comment above, I looked for pynput module which works perfect. See documentation and PyPi instructions at:

• https://pynput.readthedocs.io/
• https://pypi.org/project/pynput/

Install the library using pip: pip install pynput

Monitoring other events (e.g. Mouse move, click, scroll)

See the code under Monitoring the mouse heading from original documentation. https://pynput.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mouse.html#monitoring-the-mouse