example.py

"""
A simple example of hooking the keyboard on Linux using pyxhook

Any key pressed prints out the keys values, program terminates when spacebar
is pressed.
"""
from __future__ import print_function

# Libraries we need
import pyxhook
import time


# This function is called every time a key is presssed
def kbevent(event):
    global running
    # print key info
    print(event)

    # If the ascii value matches spacebar, terminate the while loop
    if event.Ascii == 32:
        running = False


def mouse_event(event):
    print(event)


# Create hookmanager
hookman = pyxhook.HookManager()
hookman.KeyDown = kbevent
hookman.MouseMovement = mouse_event

hookman.start()

# Create a loop to keep the application running
running = True
while running:
    time.sleep(0.1)

# Close the listener when we are done
hookman.cancel()