pyautogui automating shift-down/up and ctrl-c doesn't work

Question

I'm trying to get text from the screen automatically using pyautogui, with this code:

pyautogui.keyDown('shift')
time.sleep(0.1)
pyautogui.press('esc')
pyautogui.press(['down','down','down','down'])
pyautogui.keyUp('shift')
pyautogui.hotkey('ctrl','c')

but the command keyDown('shift') doesn't work. Could someone help me with this error?

Answer 1

Pyautogui should let you use the hotkeys here, and you could probably tidy things up with a loop:

for i in range(0, times_to_run):
    pyautogui.hotkey('shift', 'down')

Then you don't have to worry about using keyUp or time.sleep() .