i have been working on a program that detects the number of times "enter" has been pressed, the problem is that the elif/if condition that is supposed to break the function when the variable reaches a certain value, keeps counting the number of times "enter" has been pressed instead of breaking the function.
from pynput import keyboard
keystroke = 0
def on_release(key):
print(key)
global keystroke
if key == keyboard.Key.enter:
keystroke += 1 #this sums to the variable keystroke +1.
print(keystroke)
elif keystroke > 3: #This intends to break the fuction when keystroke reaches or surpasses 3.
return False
with keyboard.Listener( #Calling the function here.
on_press=on_press,
on_release=on_release) as listener:
listener.join()
......
this is the output.
Output
key.enter
1
key.enter
2
key.enter
3
key.enter
4
....
Because of the elif statement, your current program checks the number of keystrokes only if a key other than Enter has been pressed. Instead, you should replace the elif with a separate if statement so the condition is checked even when you press Enter.
Also, if you want the function to break when keystroke reaches 3, replace ">" with ">=":
from pynput import keyboard
keystroke = 0
def on_release(key):
print(key)
global keystroke
if key == keyboard.Key.enter:
keystroke += 1 #this sums to the variable keystroke +1.
print(keystroke)
if keystroke >= 3: #This intends to break the fuction when keystroke reaches or surpasses 3.
return False
with keyboard.Listener( #Calling the function here.
on_press=on_press,
on_release=on_release) as listener:
listener.join()