How to Make Keypresses Using PyAutoGUI

Question

I am using PyAutoGUI to try to code a macro. For this macro, I need to press a key to select something. To interact with the screen, I am using PyAutoGUI. Any ideas on how to press the key?

I have tried using this command.

pyautogui.press("s")

Answer 1

I'm not sure if anyone has helped out here or if you got this resolved in the end.

First, the documentation can be found here: https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html#keyboard-functions#

When passing a keystroke, you want to use "typewrite" and not "press"

Press "S"

pyautogui.typewrite("s")

Press Hotkey (Ctrl + S)

pyautogui.hotkey("ctrl" + "s")

Press key as a variable

pyautogui.keydown(variable)