pyautogui doesn't let me select text

Question

I want to select some text on the screen. I figured using pyautogui would be the way to go. I did the following:

keyDown('shift')
sleep(0.1)
press('end')
sleep(0.1)
keyUp('shift')

When doing this exact combination by hand it does select the text I want it to. Of course the sleep function is from the time module.

I even tried to select text in word using the following:

keyDown('shift')
press('right')
press('right')
keyUp('shift')

And even this didn't work... Does anyone know why?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I found the answer! Finally!
It wasn't selecting text for me as long as NUM LOCK was enabled. (I don't know why).

After disabling NUM LOCK it started selecting text again!

Answer 2

You do not use click twice. Here is an example on how to do it from the documentation:

pyautogui.doubleClick()

PS: I tkink you wanted to do left click...

Answer 3

Just found out about 'hotkey' function. Appears to be faster than the single key variation as well.

Example for a copy text and paste per line macro:

import pyautogui as pyg

def macro():

    pyg.press('home')
    pyg.hotkey('shiftleft', 'end')
    pyg.hotkey('ctrl', 'c')
    pyg.press('end')
    pyg.press('enter')
    pyg.hotkey('ctrl', 'v')
    pyg.press('down')

i = macro()

# Do macro 10 times
for i in range(10):
    macro()