🔒 Pyautogui cant make |

[young ibex]

I'm trying to write something but pyautogui cant write the pipe letter (|)
I'm using a DE layout on my keyboard

[abstract vortex]

@young ibex

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[dreamy mountain]

Looks like pyautogui hasn't figured out how to handle other non-english keyboards yet Roadmap: Non-English Keyboards #137
From that issue comes a workaround, which is to use the keyboard module for writing text instead link

Well, there is a simple solution workaround for this bug:

import pyautogui
import keyboard

pyautogui.write('Test #1: äöüß ÄÖÜ !§$%&/()=?\ <>+-*~_;:|')
pyautogui.write("\n")

keyboard.write('Test #2: äöüß ÄÖÜ !§$%&/()=?\ <>+-*~_;:|')

Output:

Test '1:   !$%&/()=?\ >>*-*_;:
Test #2: äöüß ÄÖÜ !§$%&/()=?\ <>+-*~_;:|

✔ Testet on a german Windows 10, Python 3.10.5, PyAutoGUI 0.9.53, keyboard 0.13.5

Link to the keyboard package: https://pypi.org/project/keyboard/

[young ibex]

thanks man, i'm going to try it rn

@dreamy mountain works perfectly fine thanks, in germany we say ''bester Mann''

[dreamy mountain]

👍 No problem. If all is good, !close to close this post.

[young ibex]

!close

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