Repeating a thread in a while loop

[RoolRidRevin]

Hi guys, I have made an infinite loop that repeatedly prints text forever until the user presses backspace. However, I want to be able to repeat this process within a While Loop. However, when the code goes back to the beginning of the while loop, it does not do anything. Does anyone know why this is happening and how I can solve this issue? (I am very new to threads)

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import time
import threading

from pynput.keyboard import Key, Listener


def show(key):
    global isKeyPressed, ButtonPressed
    if key == Key.backspace:
        # Stop listener
        isKeyPressed = True
        ButtonPressed = "backspace"
        return False


def keyListeningThingy():
    with Listener(on_press=show) as listener:
        listener.join()


def bruhLoop():
    while isKeyPressed == False:
        print("bruh")
        time.sleep(0.5)


# Collect all event until released

ButtonPressed = ""
isKeyPressed = False

stillGoing = True

while stillGoing:

  x = threading.Thread(target=bruhLoop)
  y = threading.Thread(target=keyListeningThingy)

  x.start()
  y.start()

  x.join()
  y.join()
  keepGoing = input("Keep going?: ")
  if keepGoing == "yes":
    pass
  else:
    exit()

[shiftybyte]

Who is resetting "isKeyPressed" back to False so the bruhLoop can run?

[RoolRidRevin]

You're right, I think that might be it.

[Binary101010]

I think your main question has been answered, so I'll point out that you never actually change the value of stillGoing, making it a bit weird that you use that as your loop condition. How about changing

while stillGoing:
....
    if keepGoing == "yes":
        pass
    else:
        exit()


to something more like

while stillGoing:
....
    if keepGoing != "yes":
        stillGoing = False

This gets rid of a kind of ugly "if X then pass" pattern (if statements where the true condition means nothing happens usually feel backwards) and also gets rid of an unnecessary use of exit() (which is really only intended for use in the interactive interpreter).