Reverse of SendKeys??

[Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner]

"Erik Johnson" <ej at somewhere.com> <> typed

> Aside from the obvious security issues such a program would
> represent (and your name and signature are curious in that respect as
> well), you are basically asking for functionality (i.e., a key logger)
> I believe to be outside what is offered by Python and/or the API of
> most operating systems.

I agree on the security issues, and on the statement, that writing a key
logger is outside the scope of the standard python library. But it is
easily possible to write a key logger using the API of common operating
systems. Windows provides hooks for intercepting messages from input
devices such as keyboard and mouse. On Linux you can either write a
kernel module, which is the less portable, but more effective way, or
you can code a X11 key logger, which will also work on other unix-like
systems with a working X11 installation.

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