I am trying to complete a simple GUI automation program that merely opens a web page and then clicks on a specific spot on the page every 0.2 seconds until I tell it to stop. I want my code to run and have its loop run infinitely until a keybind I specify breaks the loop (or entire program). I started out with the classic KeyboardInterrupt, which supposedly enables CTRL+C to exit a program. Here is my code:
import webbrowser, pyautogui, time
webbrowser.open('https://example.com/')
print('Press Ctrl-C to quit.')
time.sleep(5)
#pyautogui.moveTo(1061, 881)
try:
while True:
time.sleep(0.2)
pyautogui.click(1061,881)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print('\nDone.')
Unfortunately, KeyboardInterrupt and using CTRL-C to exit do not seem to work for this script (likely due to the while loop?). This causes the loop to continue to run infinitely without a way to be stopped. So my questions are: why isn't the Keyboard Interrupt working? I've seen similar examples in other scripts. Additionally, if the KeyboardInterrupt doesn't work, is there a way I can code a simple keybind to exit the program/loop?
I suspect it may have something do to with you having a different active window than the script; when you use webbrowser, open a webpage, and click on it, it moves your active window to the webpage rather than the Python console. So ctrl+c will only produce a KeyboardInterrupt when the console is your active window. Your script may be in fact correct; but your active window is not on Python, so you would have to test it by clicking back into the Python console while the program runs.
To answer your comment: No, I do not know of any other "quick" way to do such a thing.