Pyautogui typewrite types numbers only (EDIT: azerty keyboard issue) about pyautogui

[setvisible]

Hello!

Here a workaround:

import pyautogui
import pyperclip

def _workaround_write(text):
    """
    This is a work-around for the bug in pyautogui.write() with non-QWERTY keyboards
    It copies the text to clipboard and pastes it, instead of typing it.
    """
    pyperclip.copy(text)
    pyautogui.hotkey('ctrl', 'v')
    pyperclip.copy('')

# Test
text_with_special_chars = '@/:;\\.ABCabc?!~^[]{}()'
pyautogui.write(text_with_special_chars) 
# >>> //;\.ABCabc?§¨[]5°      -> NOK

_workaround_write(text_with_special_chars) 
# >>> @/:;\.ABCabc?!~^[]{}()       -> OK :)

It solved the issue on my Windows 64-bits machine / AZERTY french keyboard

[nguaman]

in what kind of input do you try to write that? in a input html or in a windows input?

[PaulBobyrev]

In Windows Python IDLE, Notepad, any kind of browsers and text editors. My final goal is to input text a website.

[asweigart]

Does the following code work?

`>>> pyautogui.press('1')

pyautogui.keyDown('1')`

[PaulBobyrev]

Yes, both are working for numbers, but doesn't do it for letters

[asweigart]

Sorry, I misread. I meant, try pyautogui.press('a') and pyautogui.keyDown('a'). I want to know if the problem is with typewrite() or all the keyboard functions.

[PaulBobyrev]

Never mind. It seems that any keyboard functions related to letters won't work, but works perfectly with numbers. What is even stranger, this issue can be observed both on my laptop and PC, but the only thing that is the same is that both computers works under Russian edition of Windows 7.

[AlbericC]

>>> pyautogui.press('a')
q

looks like the keyboard layout (azerty/fr here) affects typewrite and press

[MoSchaub]

doesn't work on mac os

[Tomaubier]

doesn't work on mac os

It does work using pyautogui.hotkey('command', 'v').

[TSTCodersRoom]

You can try :
with pyautogui.hold("command"): time.sleep(0.1) pyautogui.press("v")