Textinput - problems with num pad

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OS (e.g. Win10):
PsychoPy version 2020.2.4
**Standard Standalone? (y)
Hallo!
After having similar problems with the textbox as Editable textbox still showing through after update
I searched for an alternative solution which works fine for me
textinput - https://github.com/jacanterbury/PsychoPy-snippets/tree/master/textInput

However, I also have the problem that num pad numbers are presented differently e.g. when I press ‘1’ then ‘num_1’ is shown on the screen.
I tried to extend the code of jacanterbury by inserting the following line in the each frame part:

elif ‘num_’ in keys:
text.text = text.text.replace(‘num_’, ’ ')

Unfortunately, this does not work (I tried also several other combinations). Has anyone an idea what is wrong with this code?

Thank you very much!

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In what way does it not work? Does the replacement just not happen or does it throw an error?

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Hi TParsons! The replacement does not happen.

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What happens if you put a print statement inside that if gate? Does it print?

I suspect it might be that it’s looking for an item in keys whose value is in its entirety num_, when what you want to know is whether num_ is in any string within keys. You can use this instead to ensure that behaviour:

elif any('num_' in key for key in keys): # if any key in keys contains 'num_'

…or, if you prefer, you could treat keys as one long string:

elif 'num_' in "".join(keys):
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Thank you very much for your reply!
I implemented your code, but it worked only partly when I put it as a separate if statement.

if any(‘num_’ in key for key in keys):
text.text = text.text.replace(‘num_’, ‘’)

When I now use the numpad then I see the actual pressed number as “num_” e.g. “num_1” but the strange thing is that when I press another number e.g. “num_2” on the num pad then the first number “num_1” is converted to “1”. On the screen is see the following “1num_2”. This continues further e.g. “1234num_5”. Hope my outline is understandable. Do you have an idea of how to convert also the actual input?

Thank you very much!