I'm currently building a python code to play Blackjack where I need to be able to call certain functions uppon keypress without necessarily being in the terminal. I found this keyboard module which helped but I came across this issue.
def hit_or_stand(deck,hand):
global playing
print ("\nWould you like to Hit or Stand? Enter 'h' or 's'")
if keyboard.is_pressed('h'):
hit(deck,hand)
if keyboard.is_pressed('s'):
print("Player stands. Dealer is playing.")
playing = False
Let me explain what this function does as I don't want to overload everyone with the entire code. Essentially this function is called in a loop until the player decides to hit s which declares playing as False and therefore stopping the loop. If the player hits h then the hit function is called which draws a card. The player can draw as many cards.
My problem right now is that this code doesn't wait for user keypress. It loops extremely fast repeating it. I only want it to loop after either h or s is pressed.
I tried using keyboard.wait('h') on the line above the first if but then this doesn't allow the user to press s and therefore declare playing as False.
What I'm looking for is something along the lines of keyboard.wait('h'or's') but I know this does not work.
Thank you for your help. I am using python 3.7.9
EDIT: Keyboard Module I am referring too: https://pypi.org/project/keyboard/
Use keyboard.read_key() to wait for any input.
If it's not h or s ,read_key again.