I am making a program that gets low level data from the operating system in Python. But the 2 that I can't really get are: keyboard and mouse. On Linux, mouse is fine, its just this file: /dev/input/mice but on MacOS I heard that I need to learn PyObjC to get mouse data. Is that true? And the only file I could find that had keyboard data is: /dev/tty. Which might not work outside of Terminal. I want to use the smallest amount of modules and would like it to be done with files and os. I am using MacOS right now to code this, so I wont be able to check code that is not suitable for both. Thanks!

I am making a program that gets low level data from the operating system in Python. But the 2 that I can't really get are: keyboard and mouse. On Linux, mouse is fine, its just this file: /dev/input/mice but on MacOS I heard that I need to learn PyObjC to get mouse data. Is that true? And the only file I could find that had keyboard data is: /dev/tty. Which might not work outside of Terminal. I want to use the smallest amount of modules and would like it to be done with files and os. I am using MacOS right now to code this, so I wont be able to check code that is not suitable for both. Thanks!

• python
• linux
• macos
• keyboard
• mouse

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For your information - it's no matter, what laptop / device you using while you try to learn - try to install git-app for an a mac os and ZSH-terminal for an understanding more information + if you need how_to code in a MacOs - install DevTools for an Apple and earn a code from an Apple for your app :)

2nd moment - try to install vm-software :)

Starter pack in Python is just an a software-orienthed method for a development :)