simulate a keypress from python

[Kia]

I'm trying to add a button to the overlay that mimics a keyboard key being pressed. for example when I press this button the interface under it does whatever happens when the "e" button is pressed.

all of the topics I've found searching were either very old using `ui.key` or where binding specific actions instead of a general keypress. is there a way to do it?

[Ocelot]

I am not sure if pysdl used by RenPy exposes that, but you can try to use pygame interface for that:

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import pygame
key_event = pygame.event.Event(pygame.locals.KEYDOWN, unicode="e", key=pygame.locals.K_e, mod=pygame.locals.KMOD_NONE)
pygame.event.post(key_event)

https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/event.html