brief survey of python linux options for macros

                    winner
                    https://nitratine.net/blog/post/python-auto-clicker/
                    https://theembeddedlab.com/tutorials/keylogger-python/

                    
                    ===mouse (press button)===      
      https://pypi.org/project/pynput/
Looks promising.  Mouse+KB.  Appears to support WHILE KEY PRESSED.
Deps: Xwindows, 

          https://github.com/asweigart/pyautogui
programmatically control the mouse & keyboard. 
Deps: Linux needs the python3-xlib and Pillow

          tkinter?
          https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46227617/tkinter-event-for-downpress-of-mouse-button-holding-down


          https://github.com/autopilot-rs/autopy
Could be good, but is some pseudo-rust thing

          https://github.com/gvalkov/python-evdev/issues/70
A raw solution

      https://github.com/pywinauto/pywinauto
      https://pywinauto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code/pywinauto.mouse.html?highlight=mouse
      https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25660685/how-to-simulate-keys-in-game-with-pywinauto
Not really for linux
Pywinauto tries to let you interact with the element of a windows application, so also works, if the program is not in the foreground.

                    ===hook for input and WHILE KEY PRESSED===
          https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42104376/how-to-have-python-function-run-only-while-key-is-pressed
pygame...while key pressed, using pygame.  pygame gets mentioned a lot for WHILE PRESSED

          https://github.com/JeffHoogland/pyxhook
Use this to avoid root (keyboard lib req's root), but more of a toggle than a WHILE

          https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52055063/python-pyautogui-working-together-with-pynput
Kinda ghetto, more of a toggle than a WHILE

          good reference on why this is hard to do
          http://blog.robertelder.org/detect-keyup-event-linux-terminal/
                              ===keys===
      https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25660685/how-to-simulate-keys-in-game-with-pywinauto
Comments include notes about DirectX restrictions/interactions
"Sending Virtual Keys will be ignored if the game is running on DirectX. Use sendinput and send the scan_codes instead."

      https://github.com/boppreh/keyboard
      https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44884535/record-while-key-is-pressed-stop-when-key-is-released
Apparently the main/default, but...
"To avoid depending on X, the Linux parts reads raw device files (/dev/input/input*) but this requries root." – jrouquie Aug 6 '18 at 13:39

      https://pyglet.readthedocs.io/en/pyglet-1.3-maintenance/
pyglet is interesting for keyboard and hooking, but doesn't appear to send mousebuttons

      https://bitbucket.org/kitsu/pyahk
unupdated since 2014




      https://www.pygame.org/wiki/about
      http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/event.html#pygame.event.Event
      https://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/mouse.html
      https://www.reddit.com/r/pygame/comments/6ddbqq/how_do_you_enable_holding_keys_in_pygame/
      https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42104376/how-to-have-python-function-run-only-while-key-is-pressed
Interesting option for *creating* games, not necessarily scripting for them