write content from a .css file to a text editor in python

Question

Hello so in my python script im taking inputs from users and these inputs are written into parts of the css file.

    pag.moveTo(discord[0], discord[1], 0.5)
    pag.click()
    time.sleep(2)

    
    pag.moveTo(settings[0], settings[1], 0.5)
    pag.click()
    time.sleep(2)

    
    pag.moveTo(customcss[0], customcss[1], 0.5)
    pag.click()
    time.sleep(2)

    
    pag.moveTo(line1[0], line1[1], 0.5)
    pag.click()
    time.sleep(5)
    


    
    with open(name + '.css') as f:
      lines = f.readlines()


    pag.typewrite(lines)

The problem is when the code gets to typewrite the text in the .css file it just presses enter about 20 times and prints nothing from the file how can i fix this

Answer 1

The pyautogui.typewrite() function has two modes. The first mode takes a string and simulates pressing a key for each of the letters in the string. The second mode takes a list of strings, in which case it expects each string in the list to be a key name, not a character.

Here's documentation for the function:

def typewrite(message, interval=0.0, logScreenshot=None, _pause=True):

Performs a keyboard key press down, followed by a release, for each of the characters in message. The message argument can also be list of strings, in which case any valid keyboard name can be used. Since this performs a sequence of keyboard presses and does not hold down keys, it cannot be used to perform keyboard shortcuts. Use the hotkey() function for that.

Args:

message (str, list): If a string, then the characters to be pressed. If a list, then the key names of the keys to press in order. The valid names are listed in KEYBOARD_KEYS.

Because you call readlines() to read your file, lines contains a list of strings, one for each line of the file. If you instead called read(), lines would be a single string. So with:

lines = f.readlines()
...
pag.typewrite(lines)

you are passing a list to typewrite. In that case, per the above documentation, the function expects each string in lines to contain key names, not characters. I assume that the file you're reading does not contain a list of key names.

If you use f.read() instead of f.readlines(), you'll get the behavior you expect.