Is there a way to limit Python's keyboard.add_hotkey() to trigger only once per keystroke?

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import keyboard def on_c_pressed(): print("C key was pressed") keyboard.add_hotkey('c', on_c_pressed)

Current situation is that it fires rapidly as the keystroke is actuated and being released.

One solution is to keep track of a global variable flag and have on_c_pressed() and on_c_released but that seems a little messy. Do any of you know a cleaner way or an alternative library that detects when I press a key state once per press?

5rod · Accepted Answer · 2024-03-09 21:59:30Z

You can just wait for the key to be released:

import keyboard def c_press(): print('c was pressed') while True: if not keyboard.is_pressed('c'): break keyboard.add_hotkey('c', c_press)

We wait for 'c' to stop being pressed in this method. For other modules, you might want to take a look at pynput.

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