AttributeError: module 'keyboard._darwinkeyboard' has no attribute 'type_unicode'

Hello, I am testing your “write.py” example on OSX Sierra 10.12.6. I tested this using the native python 2.7.10 and brew install of python 3 at 3.6.2. Used pip to install keyboard once in both python environments. Both had identical errors listed below.

The program actually works, but then crashes with the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/keyboard/__init__.py", line 570, in write
    scan_code, modifiers = _os_keyboard.map_char(letter)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/keyboard/_darwinkeyboard.py", line 390, in map_char
    return key_controller.map_char(character)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/keyboard/_darwinkeyboard.py", line 305, in map_char
    return self.key_map.character_to_vk(character)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/keyboard/_darwinkeyboard.py", line 153, in character_to_vk
    raise ValueError("Unrecognized character: {}".format(character))
ValueError: Unrecognized character: enter

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "write.py", line 14, in <module>
    keyboard.write(line)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/keyboard/__init__.py", line 584, in write
    _os_keyboard.type_unicode(letter)
AttributeError: module 'keyboard._darwinkeyboard' has no attribute 'type_unicode'

I cannot tell if this is a configuration, dependency or other problem. But it is an issue with one of the standard examples.

Thanks for your Open Source contributions.

Regards, -FT

[boppreh]

Hi @antontarasenko

I never had a Mac, so imagine my surprise when I learned that the “backspace” key in a Mac is named “delete”, and the “delete” is “forward delete”. The library seems to be going by that, so the “backspace” key was missing.

I changed the names around to the more cross-platform way, which I understand may break some things, but is a choice that must be named. Any opinion on this, @glitchassassin ?

I also added a bunch more key codes. Again, I can’t test any of this, so @antontarasenko , could you test the latest master version, ccfdc1c?

[antontarasenko]

@boppreh

Hi! Another happy user of your package has this error.

I’m doing keyboard.add_abbreviation('email', '[e-mail]') like this:

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '__PATH_TO_LATEST_KEYBOARD_VERSION__')
import keyboard

if __name__ == '__main__':
    keyboard.add_abbreviation('email', '[e-mail]')
    keyboard.wait()

Then I run this file, type email<space> in a terminal or text editor, and the script returns:

...
ValueError: Unrecognized character: backspace
...
AttributeError: module 'keyboard._darwinkeyboard' has no attribute 'type_unicode'

I’m using the fixed version as in https://github.com/boppreh/keyboard/commit/f740496780ea7f1e3ebdf422db99a328b5bbea34

Details:

• MacOS X 10.11.3.
• Quartz installed with pip3 install pyobjc-core; pip3 install pyobjc-framework-Quartz not pip3 install quartz (the latter gives the requirements.txt error)