How can you read keystrokes when the python program is not in the foreground?

Question

I am trying to analyze my keystrokes over the next month and would like to create a simple program for this. I don’t want to write down commands exactly, but just generate general statistics on my keystrokes.

I am the most convenient code in python, but I am open to other suggestions. Is this possible, and if so, which python modules should I look at? Is it already done?

I am on OSX, but will also be interested in this in the Ubuntu window and Windows XP.

Answer 1

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OSX logkext. http://code.google.com/p/logkext/

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Answer 3

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import evdev
keyboard_location = '/dev/input/event1'  # get the correct one from HAL or so
keyboard_device = evdev.Device(keyboard_location)

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keyboard_device.poll()

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