Proper way to clear event queue

Is there a proper way to flush the event queue? I have an application where I would like to “unhook” from the events while the callback is firing and then begin processing events again afterward. I tried using keyboard.unhook(callback) before the function and then rehooking again after the function call but it seems to maintain the event queue when unhooked.

I also tried this hacky trick but it seems to (unsurprisingly) break the processing of future events.

def unhooked_event(func):
    def wrapper(self, *args):
        #keyboard.unhook(self.event_hook)
        func(self, *args)
        #keyboard.hook(self.event_hook)
        while not keyboard._listener.queue.empty():
            e = keyboard._listener.queue.get()

Is there some functionality available to make what I want possible?

[boppreh]

I think this issue is fairly specific to your problem, so I’m closing this issue. If you can think of a way to add functionality to keyboard that would be useful to other people, please don’t hesitate to reopen the issue.

[AlexEshoo]

Yes it does fix the problem, thanks. I’ll have to see if I can tidy up the decorator now to be able to set and unset the flag on that thread.