Input unicode string with pyautogui

Question

I'm creating an autotesting app with pyautogui lib. I want to use typewrite method to input text into forms. But some of my input strings have unicode characters in them. For example:

Næst

According to documentation typewrite can only press single-character keys. So it just ignores the æ character.

Can you advise some simple workaround?

Lucas Bragança · Answer 1 · 2020-05-29T16:25:01.527

I know this thread is old, but for the sake of the topic I managed to get around it using pyperclip in an easier manner in my opinion.

Rather than trying to make pyautogui to type special characters, copy them to the clipboard using pyperclip and then use pyautogui to paste them. For instance on Windows:

import pyautogui
import pyperclip

pyperclip.copy("It's leviOsa, not lêvioçÁ!")
pyautogui.hotkey("ctrl", "v")

EDIT:

We can make it work in multiple platforms as below (thanks @karlo for pointing it out):

import pyautogui
import pyperclip
import platform

def type(text: str):    
    pyperclip.copy(text)
    if platform.system() == "Darwin":
        pyautogui.hotkey("command", "v")
    else:
        pyautogui.hotkey("ctrl", "v")


type("It's leviOsa, not lêvioçÁ!")

On Max OS X, I had to change the paste line to `pyautogui.hotkey("command", "v")` — karlo, Oct 02 '17 at 20:15

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '15 at 15:36

Found one quite simple one.

In Mac and Linux there is an opportunity to input unicode characters using their hex codes. There is article on wikipedia about that. I'm writing my program for Mac so I enabled Unicode Hex Input in my keyboard settings and wrote this code:

def type_unicode(word):
    for c in word:
        c = '%04x' % ord(c)
        pyautogui.keyDown('optionleft')
        pyautogui.typewrite(c)
        pyautogui.keyUp('optionleft')

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 15 '20 at 02:51

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I tried trestlnord's answer, but it did not work. I adapted the idea to this:

import pyautogui as px

def type_unicode(word):
    for char in word:
        num = hex(ord(char))
        px.hotkey('ctrl', 'shift', 'u')
        for n in num:
            px.typewrite(n)
        px.typewrite('\n')

works on arch linux

answered Jun 15 '20 at 02:51

honestSalami

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the only piece of code that worked in my case. My piece of code also included ``` with open("text.txt") as f: for row in f: for char in row: ...``` – Pavel Fedotov May 05 '22 at 01:38
but it's too slow – Smart Manoj Mar 27 '23 at 15:07

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 13 '22 at 12:03

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Try pynput instead I found it more easy to type Unicode text. Install it using pip install pynput or pip3 install pynput

from pynput.keyboard import Controller

keyboard = Controller()

keyboard.type("Næst")

edited Feb 13 '22 at 12:03

S M Shahriar Zarir

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answered Sep 09 '21 at 19:16

tungngt

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I wat trying to type Thai characters and didn't find any way to do this with pyautogui even after changing the keyboard layout. pynput worked like a charm. Thank you. – Laurent Jul 04 '23 at 09:09

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 20 '21 at 19:13

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from pynput.keyboard import Controller
import time 
time.sleep(3)
Controller().type("Næst")

This code works perfectly. Just need to install pynput with pip command.

answered Dec 20 '21 at 19:13

mohssin loukili idrissi

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score -1 · Answer 6 · edited Aug 02 '23 at 15:34

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Try pynput instead I found it more easy to type Unicode text. Install it using pip install pynput or pip3 install pynput

from pynput.keyboard import Controller

keyboard = Controller()

keyboard.type("Næst")

worked for me!!! very thanks!!!

edited Aug 02 '23 at 15:34

toyota Supra

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answered Jul 29 '23 at 20:18

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