KeyboardGate 0.0.2

A simple cross-platform library to block and unblock keyboard input.

KeyboardGate

A simple, cross-platform Python library to temporarily block and unblock keyboard input in the terminal.

This can be useful for scenarios where you want to prevent user input during a critical operation or create a more controlled command-line interface.

How to Use

Install the package from PyPI:

pip install KeyboardGate

Here is a basic example of how to use KeyboardGate:

from KeyboardGate import KeyboardGate
import time

# Initialize the gate
gate = KeyboardGate()

print("Keyboard input will be disabled for 3 seconds.")
gate.KeyboardGateDisable()
time.sleep(3)
gate.KeyboardGateEnable()
print("Keyboard input is now enabled.")

# You can also use it as a context manager
with KeyboardGate():
    print("Input is disabled inside this block.")
    time.sleep(2)
print("Input is automatically re-enabled outside the 'with' block.")

How It Works

• On Unix-like systems (Linux, macOS): It modifies the terminal's attributes (termios) to turn off ECHO, which prevents characters from being displayed.
• On Windows: It uses the msvcrt module to consume any keyboard events that are waiting in the input buffer.