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I am following Chapter 18 of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. I'm on OS X.

I am trying to use pyautogui to click on a text input or text document and then input text.

I am entering the following into a shell ((370, 80) are the coordinates of my Chrome address bar):

pyautogui.click(370,80); pyautogui.typewrite('Hello world!')

click() seems to not be working as expected. It will highlight text in an input when I click on the input, but even when I manually type after the click, the text shows up in the shell. See the below screenshot of the result of running the above line:

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Other methods like position, moveTo, moveRel, and dragTo are working as expected.

If I run time.sleep(5); pyautogui.typewrite('test') and manually click on the text document or input while the thread is sleeping, the text is inputted as desired.

What might be the problem?

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  • You might need a small delay to give the Chrome window time to come to the front and start receiving keyboard events. – jasonharper Sep 09 '19 at 02:21
  • @jasonharper I've tried `pyautogui.click(370,80); time.sleep(3); pyautogui.typewrite('Hello world!')` and the text is still written to the shell after they 3 second delay. – mrwnt10 Sep 09 '19 at 02:31
  • Did Chrome actually come to the front during the delay? – jasonharper Sep 09 '19 at 02:37
  • @jasonharper It does not. The text in the address bar becomes highlighted, but the shell window remains in the front of Chrome. – mrwnt10 Sep 09 '19 at 02:43
  • Not sure if this is relevant, but when I run a `pyautogui` command, a Python icon shows up in my dock. Right-clicking this icon pulls up a menu that says the application is not responding. However, my `pyautogui` and other Python commands continue to work fine (aside from the above issue). – mrwnt10 Sep 09 '19 at 02:52

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Turns out there is a bug related to click() in OSX. Here is the solve:

  1. Open the __init__.py file in the pyautogui package directory (find the location of your Python packages using this answer.
  2. On line 510 (in the click() function), change the fourth argument to platformModule._multiClick() from 3 to clicks (no quotes). So the correct invocation is platformModule._multiClick(x, y, button, clicks)
  3. Save the edited file.

There is an open PR to fix the issue.

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