Detect keyboard presses

Question

I am creating a program that needs to be able to detect keyboard presses outside of the window. How would I be able to do something like the following:

while True:
    if getKey() == w:
        #Do a thing
    if getKey() == a:
        #Do a different thing

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11918999/key-listeners-in-python — Jonas, Jul 25 '16 at 01:24
This question doesn't already have an anwser. The above answer ONLY works in command console, he's looking for something to work outside of the prompt. — Moondra, May 27 '17 at 15:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '16 at 01:23

Assuming "outside of the window" actually means "outside of the console" you could try something like the following to append your keyword events to an output file.

import win32api 
import sys
import pythoncom, pyHook

buffer = ''
def OnKeyboardEvent(event):
if event.Ascii == 5: 
  sys.exit() 
if event.Ascii != 0 or 8: 
  f = open ('c:\\output.txt', 'a') 
  keylogs = chr(event.Ascii) 
if event.Ascii == 13: 
  keylogs = keylogs + '\n' 
  f.write(keylogs) 
  f.close() 
while True:
  hm = pyHook.HookManager() 
  hm.KeyDown = OnKeyboardEvent 
  hm.HookKeyboard() 
  pythoncom.PumpMessages()

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Detect keyboard presses

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