Cannot hold a key

[skkd113]

Hello there, by somehow i cannot hold a key with keyboard.press(), it just press once. Anyone know what is the issue?

keyboard.press('a')
time.sleep(5)
keyboard.release('a')

[jasonzampas]

This happens because the OS treats keyboard.press() and keyboard.release() as holding the key down, not pressing it repeatedly (unlike your physical keyboard). However, you can use this program below to do what you want to do:

duration = 5
end_time = time.time() + duration
 
while time.time() < end_time:
    keyboard.press('a')
    keyboard.release('a')