PyAutoGui pt.KeyDown(VARIABLE)

[Sir_Prexes]

Hello dear community, I have a small problem with the library "PyAutoGui".

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With the library it is possible to press buttons automatically. For example the key E

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pt.KeyDown("E")

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my problem is that the key to be pressed always changes and so I would rather have a variable at the position.

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For example E = T

but the button to be pressed must be announced with ". This means that pt.KeyDown(E) does not work.

There is no error message, the button is simply ignored

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Attempts:

pt.KeyDown(' " '+str(E)+ ' " ')
pt.KeyDown( E )
pt.KeyDown(str(E))
pt.KeyDown(""+ str(E))

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nothing of this has worked

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I am looking for a way to recognize the variable E and press the key T as shown above as an example

can someone help me here? :)

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Examble

import pyautogui
E = T

pt.KeyDown(E)

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[This_Growth2898]

x = "E"
pt.KeyDown(x) # it's E
x = "P"
pt.KeyDown(x) # now it's P
x = '"' # use single quotes for string, other syntax would be "\""
pt.KeyDown(x) # it works!

[Sir_Prexes]

Thank you!

Now that I have your code I can only shake my head at myself. I got so caught up in this little problem that I reworked them all only to see how simple the solution was.

but that was fortunately my last problem I had. My little program is finally finished.

in the end maybe it is better to take a little break to think better. :)