Checking a specific key with pynput in Python

Question

dpressed = 0

def on_press(key):

    if key == (\'d\'):
        global dpressed
        dpressed+=1
        logging.info(\"D: %s\" % dpressed)

Whe

Answer 1

You need to format the key to char format else it won't be equeal to the specific character.

Try

if key.char == ('d'):

Full code being:

dpressed = 0

def on_press(key):

    if key.char == ('d'):
        global dpressed
        dpressed+=1
        logging.info("D: %s" % dpressed)

Answer 2

Do you have a listener?

Without a listener the code wont work. Try adding this at the very end of your code.

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

Answer 3

For anyone else that may have this problem, I imported KeyCode from pynput.keybord at the top. Then I changed ('d') to KeyCode.from_char('d'). This should work for anyone with this problem. There is a great explanation here