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Pynput keypress emulation is being detected by pynput

I'm using the python pynput module to send emulated keypresses to my computer. I've tried it also with pyautogui, but either case has a problem: I'm trying to detect my own keypresses simulatneously, and my program is detecting the pynput emulated keypresses as well, with no way of filtering them.
from pynput.keyboard import Key, Listener, Controller
keyboard = Controller()
def write(word):
global keyboard,typing
keyboard.type(word)
def on_press(key):
global curword
key = str(key).replace("'","")
if key.isalpha():
write("hello") #when it detects a letter being pressed, it writes hello
def on_release(key):
pass
with Listener(on_press=on_press,on_release=on_release) as listener:
listener.join() #detects keypresses
Essentially, I'm trying to make a code that just autocompletes words when I type them, but when the program 'writes' the word out, the pynput listener detects the controller typing and creates an infinite loop.

Best way to control python in a loop with keyboard?

New to python and wanting to write an app for a Raspberry Pi, but wanting to develop it on my computer first without having to assemble all the buttons, so I was thinking just using a keyboard in replace of buttons would work. But I can't seem to find a good solution for looping a script and watching for keyboard input at the same time.
Specifically, I am trying to run a loop that checks the status of buttons. If any button goes on, it will turn on a shared device. If that button then goes off it will turn off the shared device after a certain time period unless any other button is on. However, if in the time period that the button goes off, but the device has not shut down, another button goes on, the device will not shut down.
I was thinking this would be easier to develop using a keyboard and the numbers 1-8 for the 8 buttons I would have connected to the Pi.
If I use
x = input()
The script stops and waits for an input, but I need it to continue to run in the background.
So I tried with with the keyboard module
import keyboard
import time
while True: #
try:
if keyboard.is_pressed('q'): #
print("you pressed q")
except:
print("no key")
currenttime = time.time()
print (f'the new time is {currenttime}' )
time.sleep(1)
But it only accepts the keyboard input sometimes. Like not while it is sleeping, which I'm using as an example of if the script was busy doing other things.
I found this code searching around
from pynput import keyboard
def on_press(key):
try:
print('alphanumeric key {0} pressed'.format(
key.char))
except AttributeError:
print('special key {0} pressed'.format(
key))
def on_release(key):
print('{0} released'.format(
key))
if key == keyboard.Key.esc:
# Stop listener
return False
# Collect events until released
with keyboard.Listener(
on_press=on_press,
on_release=on_release) as listener:
listener.join()
Aside from the security issues, it grabs the keyboard input but I don't know where to put my loop.
I also played around a bit with tkinter, but since I'm not trying to build a GUI, this didn't seem like the right path.

I'd recommend looking into event binding: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-binding-function-in-tkinter/

How can I find if someone is pressing a key repeatedly in python?

im trying to make a reaction test thing in python. basically you press enter to start and then at a random point between 5 seconds it will stop and you have to click enter again. it finds the time that it took for you to press enter. but i need a way to stop the person from just holding enter and cheating the program. help??

You could do also do this as a key release.
from pynput import keyboard
def on_release(key):
print('Key released: {0}'.format(key))
# Collect events until released
with keyboard.Listener(on_release=on_release) as listener:
listener.join()
Make sure to also install the module:
pip install keyboard

getting long press keyboard pressed listener in python

I want to make program so that until a key is pressed it does a specific event repeatedly and when it's released it don't do anything
I am not able to achieve the same, I used pynput and keyboard library but don't know how to get this done please help

As you mentioned you have to download pynput in order to use it.
on_press function works as you hold the any key
on_release key works when you release the key
from pynput.keyboard import Key, Listener
def on_press(key):
a=5
b=3
print(a+b)
def on_release(key):
if key == Key.esc:
return False
with Listener(on_press=on_press,on_release=on_release) as listener:
listener.join()

Python get keyboard input without getting stuck

I'm making a python program that changes my wallpaper every hour, but i want to be able to also change the wallpaper when i press a certain button.
this is the code i've tried
while True:
key = ord(getch())
but the only bad part is that it gets stuck on that until i press something. Is there a better way to do this?

You may be able to achieve what you want by using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pynput.
See also its docs on pythonhosted http://pythonhosted.org/pynput/, especially the section about monitoring the keyboard http://pythonhosted.org/pynput/keyboard.html#monitoring-the-keyboard.
The following is an example from the docs:
from pynput.keyboard import Key
from pynput.keyboard import Listener
def on_press(key):
print('{0} pressed'.format(
key))
def on_release(key):
print('{0} release'.format(
key))
if key == Key.esc:
# Stop listener
return False
# Collect events until released
with Listener(
on_press=on_press,
on_release=on_release) as listener:
listener.join()
It will print every key you press until you press ESC, after which it will terminate.
Note that there are some operating system specific things to consider, for example on OSX the process must run as root.

I somehow accidentally found this.
import msvcrt
if msvcrt.kbhit():
Key = ord(getch())
if Key ==96:
#Do something here
And that seems to work. I think msvcrt.kbhit() is waiting for an keypress. Key = ord(getch()) takes the keypress and if Key ==96: checks if its the right keypress