How can I avoid TypeError: MouseSwitch() missing 8 required positional arguments: 'msg', 'x', 'y', 'data', 'time', 'hwnd', and 'window_name'

Question

Trying to hook into mouse events but in my early tests the program stops responding after about 30 seconds[EDIT: See bottom of post] and gives this error

Answer 1

pyHook is more oriented to python 2. There are repositories in github to use it in python 3 as will as modifications and extensions and anymore, better use pynput in python 3 as follows:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from pynput.keyboard import Listener

def key_recorder(key):    
    f=open('keylogger.txt','a')
    keyo=str(key)

    if keyo=="Key.enter":
        f.write('\n')
    elif keyo=="Key.space": 
        f.write(" ")
    elif keyo =="Key.backspace":       
        #f.write(keyo.replace(keyo,""))          
        size=f.tell()    # the size... 
        f.truncate(size-1)     
    elif keyo=="Key.alt_l" or keyo=="Key.tab":
        f.write('')  
    elif keyo=="Key.ctrl_l":
        f.write('')    
    elif keyo=="Key.alt_gr":
        f.write('')                                 
    else:
        print(keyo)
        f.write(keyo.replace("'",""))

with Listener(on_press=key_recorder) as l :
    l.join()

Answer 2

I had this with KeyboardSwitch instead of MouseSwitch and traced it to a UnicodeDecodeError when pyHook tries to interpret the window name as ascii. It fails on Skype which has unicode characters in its window name. I've posted how I fixed it here. But I had to rebuild pyHook.