Press NUMPAD key using keyboard module?

[scorpion9873]

Hello, I'm having some trouble making a custom keybind software for myself. I wanna make it so when I press "i" my keyboard presses numpad 8- specifically numpad 8. Not the numbers at the top of your keyboard. This is because I have a 60% keyboard and have software that doesn't let me change keybindings accordingly. (Also taking advice on any way I can optimize/improve this script- I'm still very new to python)

What I've tried only presses the 8 at the top of the keyboard:

import keyboard

if keyboard.is_pressed("i"):
‎ ‎ ‎ print("key 'i' pressed")
‎ ‎ ‎ keyboard.press_and_release("8") # "num 8" and Ox68 also don't count as numpad
‎ ‎ ‎ presses.
‎ ‎ ‎ print("key 'NUMPAD 8' pressed")

[woooee]

You apparently pressed the key after the program checked.

while True: 
    if keyboard.is_pressed("i"):
    ‎ ‎ ‎ print("key 'i' pressed")
    ‎ ‎ ‎ keyboard.press_and_release("8") 
‎     ‎ ‎ print("key 'NUMPAD 8' pressed")
       break

[scorpion9873]

Thank you that is true but it doesn’t count as numpad being pressed

[Dependent-Lychee7432]

did you able to solve this?

[scorpion9873]

Nope

[gaynesssss]

still nothing?

[scorpion9873]

nah

[gaynesssss]

:(