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I want to stop pythoncom working

I was writing a code about keylogging by pyHook. The following codes are example:

import pythoncom as pc, pyHook as ph

def KeyboardHook(event):
    print chr(event.Ascii)
    return True

hm = ph.HookManager()
hm.KeyDown = KeyboardHook
hm.HookKeyboard()
pc.PumpMessages()

I want to stop pythoncom's PumpMessages method for a while later (for example five seconds). But I couldn't find any answer to it.

I use: Windows 7, Python2.7

Thanks for answer.

Solution

  • You will have to use pythoncom.PumpWaitingMessages which is not blocking.

    import pythoncom as pc, pyHook as ph
import time

def KeyboardHook(event):
    print chr(event.Ascii)
    return True

hm = ph.HookManager()
hm.KeyDown = KeyboardHook
hm.HookKeyboard()

while time.clock() < 5:
    pc.PumpWaitingMessages()