Move mouse cursor to coordinates that are imported from a text file

Question

I am quite new to Python! I have a text file with some x,y coordinates like so:

1126 , 600
850 , 254
190 , 240
549 , 109

I am using Pynput to move the mouse to a specific position, such as

mouse.position=(300,500)

I want to be able to have the code read coordinates from the text file "XY_test.txt" so it can print the coordinates and also move the cursor to them.

try:
    file=open("E:\\XY_test.txt",'r')
    coords=file.readlines()
    for i in range (1,2):
        print(coords[i])
        mouse.position=(coords[i])
finally:
    file.close()

With this code I can successfully print the coordinates, but the cursor does not move to the desired position. Instead the cursor goes to the position (1,1). It seems that there is a problem with the formatting of the "mouse.position=(coords[i])" line. It expects a value of (x,y), but it apparently reads "1126,600" and puts the first digit as an x-value and the second digit as a y-value. I discovered this when I used "mouse.move(coords[i])" in the place of "mouse.position=(coords[i])" as seen below.

>>> try:
    file=open("E:\\XY_test.txt",'r')
    coords=file.readlines()
    for i in range (1,2):
        print(coords[i])
        mouse.move(coords[i])
finally:
    file.close()


1126 , 600
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#181>", line 6, in <module>
    mouse.move(coords[i])
TypeError: move() missing 1 required positional argument: 'dy'

I am not sure how to properly have the code read lines of the text file and use them properly as coordinates.

Answer 1

Looks like your list of coords will look something like this:

coords=['1126 , 600', 850 , 254', '190 , 240', '549 , 109']

So what you're actually passing to mouse.move() is:

mouse.move('1126, 600') instead of mouse.move(1126, 600) .

What you need to do is split each coord by ' , ' , cast each side to int , then pass those as two separate arguments.