On Monday, February 20, 2023 01:57 PM, Henry S. Thompson expressed:
> First thing to find out if it's truly broken, or just not known to
> work.
>
> With a _safe_ test case, just try editting the code to allow Cygwin,
> e.g. on line 121 of keyboard/__init__.py:
>
> if _platform.system() in ['Windows','CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044']:
This one failed:
$ python3
Python 3.9.10 (main, Jan 20 2022, 21:37:52)
[GCC 11.2.0] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import keyboard
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/keyboard/__init__.py", line 122,
in <module>
from. import _winkeyboard as _os_keyboard
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/keyboard/_winkeyboard.py", line
37, in <module>
kernel32 = ctypes.WinDLL('kernel32', use_last_error=True)
AttributeError: module 'ctypes' has no attribute 'WinDLL'
The linux one worked, but...
if keyboard.is_pressed("a"):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/keyboard/__init__.py", line 410,
in is_pressed
_listener.start_if_necessary()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/keyboard/_generic.py", line 35,
in start_if_necessary
self.init()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/keyboard/__init__.py", line 196,
in init
_os_keyboard.init()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/keyboard/_nixkeyboard.py", line
113, in init
build_device()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/keyboard/_nixkeyboard.py", line
109, in build_device
ensure_root()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/keyboard/_nixcommon.py", line
174, in ensure_root
raise ImportError('You must be root to use this library on linux.')
ImportError: You must be root to use this library on linux.
More work to be done.
> One way or the other, you should find out what the _real_ problem is.
Let's see how far I can go. All I want is to capture the ENTER key in a website
powered by python3. Thanks for the ideas.
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