Sometimes, we want to detect key presses with Python.

In this article, we’ll look at how to detect key presses with Python.

How to detect key presses with Python?

To detect key presses with Python, we can use the keyboard package.

To install it, we run

pip3 install keyboard

Then we can use it by writing

import keyboard  

while True: 
    try:  
        if keyboard.is_pressed('q'):
            print('You Pressed A Key!')
            break
    except:
        break 

to create an infinite while loop to check if the q key is pressed.

If it’s pressed, then we print a message and stop the loop with break.

If there’s an exception raised, we also stop the loop with break.

Conclusion

To detect key presses with Python, we can use the keyboard package.