🔒 How to clear buffer when using keyboard.on_press_key()

[earnest galleon]

Hi ! I'm using keyboard.on_press_key() in one of my projects ( looking for up, left, right, down and enter ) but, the thing is, when I input anything, it adds itself to the buffer, meaning that if after my code I ask for the user input, it's going to paste every single thing that I pressed during the code. Is there a way to clear the buffer before I ask for the user input ?

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@earnest galleon

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[earnest galleon]

you can replicate this with something like this :

end = False

def End():
  global end
  end = True

keyboard.on_press_key( 'a', lambda _: End() )

while ( not end ): continue

print( input() )

you'll see that everything you press before pressing "a" is going to add up and go inside your input()

[primal elm]

Hmm, if you're making a terminal UI you could move away from keyboard into something more appropriate like blessed

[earnest galleon]

blessed ?

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!pip blessed

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blessed v1.20.0

Easy, practical library for making terminal apps, by providing an elegant, well-documented interface to Colors, Keyboard input, and screen Positioning capabilities.

Released on <t:1675477545:D>.

[earnest galleon]

oh

alr

[timid field]

it's nice

[earnest galleon]

thank you

[timid field]

yeah good luck with your project

[earnest galleon]

I'm gonna look into it

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🔒 How to clear buffer when using keyboard.on_press_key()