Import Error on Replit (Chromebook - Linux)

[ryantwt07]

I'm creating a guessing game which requires the user to type "s" to start the game.

Operating System

Google Chromebook - ChromeOS 92.0.4515.162 (Official Build) (64-bit) Lenovo 500e Chromebook 2nd Gen Replit

Code

print("Welcome to the Colour Guessing Game!")
print("Press 'I' for instructions.")
print("Press 'S' to Start.")
started = False
while not started:
  from keyboard import is_pressed
  if is_pressed("s"):
     started = True
  elif is_pressed("i"):
     print("The system will generate a number from 1-1000. Try to guess the correct number generate d in 15 moves.")
  else:
    continue
else:
  print("Under Maintenance.")

Error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 7, in <module>
    if is_pressed("s"):
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/keyboard/__init__.py", line 410, in is_pressed
    _listener.start_if_necessary()
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/keyboard/_generic.py", line 35, in start_if_necessary
    self.init()
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/keyboard/__init__.py", line 196, in init
    _os_keyboard.init()
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/keyboard/_nixkeyboard.py", line 113, in init
    build_device()
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/keyboard/_nixkeyboard.py", line 109, in build_device
    ensure_root()
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/keyboard/_nixcommon.py", line 174, in ensure_root
    raise ImportError('You must be root to use this library on linux.')
ImportError: You must be root to use this library on linux.

[boppreh]

I'm not very familiar with Replit, but does it run locally in your machine, or in a remote cloud server somewhere? If it's the first one, you need to invoke Replit as root. If it's the latter, there's not much you can do; you have to run keyboard on the machine that has the keyboard attached.

[Secretowo]

This is expected behaviour, look in the Known limitations section: "To avoid depending on X, the Linux parts reads raw device files (/dev/input/input*) but this requires root."

Im not sure if you can run stuff as root on chromebooks. (And if replit runs in the cloud, this wont work anyways)