Exception with Python 3.6.5 64 bit and pyinstaller

When using keyboard with python 3.6.5 64 bit and running inside of pyinstaller, this error is returned:

Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "threading.py", line 916, in _bootstrap_inner
  File "threading.py", line 864, in run
  File "site-packages\keyboard\__init__.py", line 296, in listen
  File "site-packages\keyboard\_winkeyboard.py", line 562, in listen
  File "site-packages\keyboard\_winkeyboard.py", line 555, in prepare_intercept
ctypes.ArgumentError: argument 3: <class 'OverflowError'>: int too long to convert

I found a couple of other issues on other projects describing the same issue: https://github.com/rene-aguirre/pywinusb/issues/30 https://github.com/jaraco/jaraco.windows/issues/7 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44163105/python-3-5-1-amd64-ctypes-argumenterror-argument-1-class-overflowerror https://bitbucket.org/pyglet/pyglet/issues/147/ctypesargumenterror-argument-4-int-too

Not sure exactly how to solve this for keyboard, but I am using 0.13.1. This error does not appear for me when I force using 32 bit Python in pyinstaller. I also only see the error inside of pyinstaller, not when just running a project normally with Python 3.6.5 64 bit.

This is all being done on Windows 10.

[taylorsmurphy]

I figured out the easy workaround finally, @GbeTech this should work for you too.

in keyboard\_winkeyboard.py line 555 replace keyboard_hook = SetWindowsHookEx(WH_KEYBOARD_LL, keyboard_callback, GetModuleHandleW(None), None) with keyboard_hook = SetWindowsHookEx(WH_KEYBOARD_LL, keyboard_callback, ctypes.c_ulonglong(GetModuleHandleW(None)), None)

GetModuleHandleW needs to be wrapped in ctypes.c_ulonglong or you get the overflow error. If the problem happens in any other modules you come across, the fix should be similar.

I’m not sure if this is the right way to do it @boppreh, (perhaps it should be specified earlier, or conditional on 32 vs 64 bit, but it works for my system).

[boppreh]

Thank you for the in-depth report, I’m working on it.