Checking if a certain key is being pressed

Question

i'm fairly new to python. This is my code till now.

from pynput.keyboard import Listener


counta = 0

def on_press(key):


    if key == a:
        print("a is pressed")
        global counta
        counta += 1
        print(counta)

    else:
        print("keyboard pressed")


with Listener(on_press=on_press) as listener:
    listener.join()

I want to check if the Key that is pressed is the lower a. But till now it prints out "keyboard pressed" no matter if i press the 'a' key or any other key. Thanks for any help

Answer 1

You need to check the key.char attribute and also use quotes to 'a'

from pynput.keyboard import Listener

counta = 0

def on_press(key):

    if key.char == 'a':
        print("a is pressed")
        global counta
        counta += 1
        print(counta)

    else:
        print("keyboard pressed")


with Listener(on_press=on_press) as listener:
    listener.join()

Try to use the debugger it will help you a lot.