type(list[0]) returns pynput.keyboard._win32.KeyCode

Question

My problem is how pynput returns the data (I hope that\'s how you would say it?).

So what I\'m trying to do is have the listener record keyboard input, the

Answer 1

You can extract the character from the pressed key by using the char attribute of the pynput.keyboard._win32.KeyCode. In other words, in your press function, you would append key.char to the list. Also, I would avoid using list as a variable name.

def press(key):
    print(_list, 'pressed')
    if key is not keyboard.Key.space:
        _list.append(key.char)         # <-- Note: key.char
    elif keyboard.Key.space is key:
        pass
elif keyboard.Key.enter is key:
    pass