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I am writing a script to automate running a particular model. When the model fails, it waits for a user input (Enter key). I can detect when the model has failed, but I am not able to use python (on linux) to simulate a key press event. Windows has the SendKeys library to do this but I was wondering if there is a similar library for python on linux.
Thanks!
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Use the input() function to get Python user input from keyboard. Press the enter key after entering the value. The program waits for user input indefinetly, there is no timeout. The input function returns a string, that you can store in a variable.
To simulate native-language keystrokes, you can also use the [Xnn] or [Dnn] constants in the string passed to the Keys method. nn specifies the virtual-key code of the key to be “pressed”. For instance, [X221]u[X221]e will “type” the u and e characters with the circumflex accent.
Have a look at this https://github.com/SavinaRoja/PyUserInput its cross-platform control for mouse and keyboard in python
Keyboard control works on X11(linux) and Windows systems. But no mac support(when i wrote this answer).
from pykeyboard import PyKeyboard
k = PyKeyboard()
# To Create an Alt+Tab combo
k.press_key(k.alt_key)
k.tap_key(k.tab_key)
k.release_key(k.alt_key)
A more low-level approach would be to create an uinput device from which you would then inject input events into the linux input subsystem. Consider the following libraries:
Example of sending <enter> with the latter:
from evdev import uinput, ecodes as e
with uinput.UInput() as ui:
ui.write(e.EV_KEY, e.KEY_ENTER, 1)
ui.write(e.EV_KEY, e.KEY_ENTER, 0)
ui.syn()
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