How to detect key being held down instead of a press? about pynput HOT 3 CLOSED

The operating system, or input handling system, will generally only generate events upon press and release. You will probably have to decide on a reasonable time out, schedule a timer with your task and cancel it if the key is released. On 4 Jul 2017 15:12, "Miail" <[email protected]> wrote: I am currently working on implementing a feature which "does something while a key is being held down".. As I understand pynput, it seems impossible to implement such feature? or am i missing something? This implementation: from pynput import keyboard def on_press(key): if key == keyboard.Key.cmd_l: try: print('- Started recording -'.format(key)) except IOError: print "Error" else: print('incorrect character {0}, press cmd_l'.format(key)) def on_release(key): print('{0} released'.format(key)) if key == keyboard.Key.cmd_l: print('{0} stop'.format(key)) keyboard.Listener.stop return False with keyboard.Listener(on_press=on_press, on_release=on_release) as listener: listener.join() Only detect one press, also when the key is being held down.. It doesn't seem to read the stream.. I though maybe the use of a while loop would help, also giving the way the problem is stated, so i tried this... from pynput import keyboard def on_press(key): while key == keyboard.Key.cmd_l: try: print('- Started recording -'.format(key)) except IOError: print "Error" else: print('incorrect character {0}, press cmd_l'.format(key)) def on_release(key): print('{0} released'.format(key)) if key == keyboard.Key.cmd_l: print('{0} stop'.format(key)) keyboard.Listener.stop return False with keyboard.Listener(on_press=on_press, on_release=on_release) as listener: listener.join() Which resulted in being stuck in a while loop.. and not come outside.. can the library be used like this, can it detect "a key being held down"? — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#36>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAjOY1PbB21sRIahSpIERVmZDRjRAcZ6ks5sKjo_gaJpZM4ONVh7> .