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Release Notes

v1.7.7 (2024-05-10) - Various fixes

  • Small corrections to the documentation.
  • Handle explicit timeout when calling join on listeners.
  • Correct regression in hot key handling for special keys.
  • Reverted changes to lazy loading of CoreFoundation and Quartz, since this still does not appear to work. Thanks to Zach Zaiman!
  • Let the type of values in Key be KeyCode so that type checkers are not confused. Thanks to Amund Eggen Svandal!
  • Do not crash in __del__ on Xorg if display creation fails. Thanks to Gabriele Pongelli!
  • Correct support for emojis on Windows. Thanks to Yunus Emre!

v1.7.6 (2022-01-01) - Various fixes

  • Allow passing virtual key codes to the parser for global hot keys.
  • Stop the recording context asynchronously on Xorg.
  • Do not pass None to objc.objc_object. Thanks to yejunxi!
  • Do not crash when pressing the alt key on uinput. Thanks to Caldas Lopes!
  • Use the correct option prefix for listeners derived from the backend implementations. Thanks to Yu Wang!

v1.7.5 (2021-11-19) - Various fixes

  • Corrected crashes on Xorg when a listener was configured to suppress system events. Thanks to jpramosi!
  • Improved handling of keyboard controller on Windows. The controller now has a greater change of working with applications using lower level events. Thanks to bhudax!
  • Updated macOS implementation to use new version of pyobjc.

v1.7.4 (2021-10-10) - Various fixes

  • Detect whether permissions are lacking on macOS. Thanks to Dane Finlay!
  • Eagerly import symbols from CoreFoundation and Quartz. Thanks to Ronald Oussoren!
  • Improved handling of dumpkeys utility. Thanks to Markus Niedermann!
  • Removed ambiguous license file.

v1.7.3 (2021-02-10) - Various fixes

  • Corrected keysym handling on Xorg; not all groups were loaded, and the fallback to our internal tables was never triggered. Thanks to Philipp Klaus!
  • Updated the version of Quartz used for the macOS backend to allow pynput to be installed on Big Sur. Thanks to Michael Madden!
  • Added missing function keys on Windows. Thanks to Dave Atkinson!
  • Corrected scroll speed for mouse controller on macOS. Thanks to Albert Zeyer!
  • Corrected media keys for Xorg. Thanks to Gabriele N. Tornetta!
  • Corrected parameter name in documentation. Thanks to Jinesi Yelizati!

v1.7.2 (2020-12-21) - Corrected uinput key mapping

  • Corrected mapping of virtual key codes to characters for the uinput backend.
  • Corrected spelling errors. Thanks to Martin Michlmayr!
  • Corrected and improved documentation.

v1.7.1 (2020-08-30) - Corrected release notes

  • Corrected thanks for arbitrary unicode character support for Xorg.

v1.7.0 (2020-08-30) - A new backend and many new features and bug fixes

  • Added a new uinput based keyboard backend for Linux, when no X server is available.
  • Allow typing arbitrary unicode characters on Xorg backend. Thanks to gdiShun!
  • Allow overriding the automatically selected backend with an environment variable, and added a dummy backend.
  • Added support for mouse side button on Windows. Thanks to danielkovarik!
  • Added convenience method to tap keys.
  • Allow specifying raw virtual key codes in hotkeys.
  • Improved error messages when a backend cannot be loaded.
  • Include more information in stringification of events.
  • Corrected return value of Events.get to that specified by the documentation.
  • Corrected keyboard listener not to type random characters on certain keyboard layouts.
  • Corrected errors when pressing certain keys on Windows, where the operating system reports that they are dead but no combining version exists.
  • Improved documentation.

v1.6.8 (2020-02-28) - Various fixes

  • Updated documentation.
  • Corrected lint warnings and tests.
  • Do not use internal types in argtypes for win32 functions; this renders them uncallable for other code running in the same runtime.
  • Include scan codes in events on Windows. Thanks to bhudax!
  • Correctly apply transformation to scroll event values on Windows. Thanks to DOCCA0!

v1.6.7 (2020-02-17) - Various fixes

  • Corrected infinite scrolling on macOS when providing non-integer deltas. Thanks to Iván Munsuri Ibáñez!
  • Corrected controller and listener handling of media keys on macOS. Thanks to Iván Munsuri Ibáñez!

v1.6.6 (2020-01-23) - Corrected hot key documentation

  • The code examples for the simple pynput.keyboard.HotKey now work. Thanks to jfongattw!

v1.6.5 (2020-01-08) - Corrected media key mappings

  • Corrected media key mappings on macOS. Thanks to Luis Nachtigall!

v1.6.4 (2020-01-03) - Corrected imports yet again

  • Corrected imports for keyboard Controller. Thanks to rhystedstone!

v1.6.3 (2019-12-28) - Corrected imports again

  • Corrected imports for keyboard Controller. Thanks to Matt Iversen!

v1.6.2 (2019-12-28) - Corrected imports

  • Corrected imports for keyboard Controller. Thanks to Matt Iversen!

v1.6.1 (2019-12-27) - Corrections for Windows

  • Corrected global hotkeys on Windows.
  • Corrected pressed / released state for keyboard listener on Windows. Thanks to segalion!

v1.6.0 (2019-12-11) - Global Hotkeys

  • Added support for global hotkeys.
  • Added support for streaming listener events synchronously.

v1.5.2 (2019-12-06) - Corrected media key names for Xorg

  • Removed media flag from Xorg keys.

v1.5.1 (2019-12-06) - Corrected media key names for macOS

  • Corrected attribute names for media keys on macOS. Thanks to ah3243!

v1.5.0 (2019-12-04) - Various improvements

  • Corrected keyboard listener on Windows. Thanks to akiratakasaki, segalion, SpecialCharacter!
  • Corrected handling of some special keys, including arrow keys, when combined with modifiers on Windows. Thanks to tuessetr!
  • Updated documentation to include information about DPI scaling on Windows. Thanks to david-szarka!
  • Added experimental support for media keys. Thanks to ShivamJoker, StormTersteeg!

v1.4.5 (2019-11-05) - Corrected errors on Python 3.8

  • Corrected errors about using in operator for enums on Python 3.8 on macOS.

v1.4.4 (2019-09-24) - Actually corrected keyboard listener on macOS

  • Included commit to correctly fall back on CGEventKeyboardGetUnicodeString.
  • Corrected deprecation warnings about Enum usage on Python 3.8.

v1.4.3 (2019-09-24) - Corrected keyboard listener on macOS again

  • Correctly fall back on CGEventKeyboardGetUnicodeString.
  • Updated documentation.

v1.4.2 (2019-03-22) - Corrected keyboard listener on macOS

  • Use CGEventKeyboardGetUnicodeString in macOS keyboard listener to send correct characters.
  • Include keysym instead of key code in Xorg keyboard listener.
  • Corrected logging to not include expected StopException.
  • Updated and corrected documentation.

v1.4.1 (2018-09-07) - Logging

  • Log unhandled exceptions raised by listener callbacks.

v1.4 (2018-07-03) - Event suppression

  • Added possibility to fully suppress events when listening.
  • Added support for typing some control characters.
  • Added support for mouse drag events on OSX. Thanks to jungledrum!
  • Include the key code in keyboard listener events.
  • Correctly handle the numeric key pad on Xorg with num lock active. Thanks to TheoRet!
  • Corrected handling of current thread keyboard layout on Windows. Thanks to Schmettaling!
  • Corrected stopping of listeners on Xorg.
  • Corrected import of Xlib.keysymdef.xkb on Xorg. Thanks to Glandos!

v1.3.10 (2018-02-05) - Do not crash under Xephyr

  • Do not crash when Xlib.display.Display.get_input_focus returns an integer, as it may when running under Xephyr. Thanks to Eli Skeggs!

v1.3.9 (2018-01-12) - Correctly handle the letter A on OSX

  • Corrected check for virtual key code when generating keyboard events on OSX. This fixes an issue where pressing A with shift explicitly pressed would still type a minuscule letter.

v1.3.8 (2017-12-08) - Do not crash on some keyboard layouts on OSX

  • Fall back on a different method to retrieve the keyboard layout on OSX. This helps for some keyboard layouts, such as Chinese. Thanks to haoflynet!

v1.3.7 (2017-08-23) - Xorg corrections

  • Include mouse buttons up to 30 for Xorg.

v1.3.6 (2017-08-13) - win32 corrections

  • Corrected double delivery of fake keyboard events on Windows.
  • Corrected handling of synthetic unicode keys on Windows.

v1.3.5 (2017-06-07) - Corrected dependencies again

  • Reverted changes in 1.3.3.
  • Corrected platform specifier for Python 2 on Linux.

v1.3.4 (2017-06-05) - Xorg corrections

  • Corrected bounds check for values on Xorg.

v1.3.3 (2017-06-05) - Make dependencies non-optional

  • Made platform dependencies non-optional.

v1.3.2 (2017-05-15) - Fix for button click on Mac

  • Corrected regression from previous release where button clicks would crash the Mac mouse listener.

v1.3.1 (2017-05-12) - Fixes for unknown buttons on Linux

  • Fall back on Button.unknown for unknown mouse buttons in Xorg mouse listener.

v1.3 (2017-04-10) - Platform specific features

  • Added ability to stop event propagation on Windows. This will prevent events from reaching other applications.
  • Added ability to ignore events on Windows. This is a workaround for systems where the keyboard monitor interferes with normal keyboard events.
  • Added ability to modify events on OSX. This allows intercepting and altering input events before they reach other applications.
  • Corrected crash on OSX when some types of third party input sources are installed.

v1.2 (2017-01-06) - Improved error handling

  • Allow catching exceptions thrown from listener callbacks. This changes the API, as joining a listener now potentially raises unhandled exceptions, and unhandled exceptions will stop listeners.
  • Added support for the numeric keypad on Linux.
  • Improved documentation.
  • Thanks to jollysean and gilleswijnker for their input!

v1.1.7 (2017-01-02) - Handle middle button on Windows

  • Listen for and dispatch middle button mouse clicks on Windows.

v1.1.6 (2016-11-24) - Corrected context manager for pressing keys

  • Corrected bug in pynput.keyboard.Controller.pressed which caused it to never release the key. Many thanks to Toby Southwell!

v1.1.5 (2016-11-17) - Corrected modifier key combinations on Linux

  • Corrected handling of modifier keys to allow them to be composable on Linux.

v1.1.4 (2016-10-30) - Small bugfixes

  • Corrected error generation when GetKeyboardState fails.
  • Make sure to apply shift state to borrowed keys on X.
  • Use pylint.

v1.1.3 (2016-09-27) - Changed Xlib backend library

  • Changed Xlib library.

v1.1.2 (2016-09-26) - Added missing type for Python 2

  • Added missing LPDWORD for Python 2 on Windows.

v1.1.1 (2016-09-26) - Fixes for listeners and controllers on Windows

  • Corrected keyboard listener on Windows. Modifier keys and other keys changing the state of the keyboard are now handled correctly.
  • Corrected mouse click and release on Windows.
  • Corrected code samples.

v1.1 (2016-06-22) - Simplified usage on Linux

  • Propagate import errors raised on Linux to help troubleshoot missing Xlib module.
  • Declare python3-xlib as dependency on Linux for Python 3.

v1.0.6 (2016-04-19) - Universal wheel

  • Make sure to build a universal wheel for all python versions.

v1.0.5 (2016-04-11) - Fixes for dragging on OSX

  • Corrected dragging on OSX.
  • Added scroll speed constant for OSX to correct slow scroll speed.

v1.0.4 (2016-04-11) - Fixes for clicking and scrolling on Windows

  • Corrected name of mouse input field when sending click and scroll events.

v1.0.3 (2016-04-05) - Fixes for Python 3 on Windows

  • Corrected use of ctypes on Windows.

v1.0.2 (2016-04-03) - Fixes for thread identifiers

  • Use thread identifiers to identify threads, not Thread instances.

v1.0.1 (2016-04-03) - Fixes for Python 3

  • Corrected bugs which prevented the library from being used on Python 3.

v1.0 (2016-02-28) - Stable Release

  • Changed license to LGPL.
  • Corrected minor bugs and inconsistencies.
  • Corrected and extended documentation.

v0.6 (2016-02-08) - Keyboard Monitor

  • Added support for monitoring the keyboard.
  • Corrected wheel packaging.
  • Corrected deadlock when stopping a listener in some cases on X.
  • Corrected key code constants on Mac OSX.
  • Do not intercept events on Mac OSX.

v0.5.1 (2016-01-26) - Do not die on dead keys

  • Corrected handling of dead keys.
  • Corrected documentation.

v0.5 (2016-01-18) - Keyboard Modifiers

  • Added support for modifiers.

v0.4 (2015-12-22) - Keyboard Controller

  • Added keyboard controller.

v0.3 (2015-12-22) - Cleanup

  • Moved pynput.mouse.Controller.Button to top-level.

v0.2 (2015-10-28) - Initial Release

  • Support for controlling the mouse on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.
  • Support for monitoring the mouse on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.