Preventing Sleep on Computers

Instead of working through OS settings that often don't work, there's a simple solution to preventing your system from going to sleep: generating user input.

Here's a simple script that uses pyautogui to press the shift key every 5 minutes:

import pyautogui
import time
while True:
    time.sleep(5 * 60)
    pyautogui.press("shift")
    print("pressed shift")