Hi @m_adam , thank you for the detailed reply! You're right there are a couple of parts to my question, so it might be helpful if I give a simplified example of what I'm trying to do.

Essentially, I want to create a script that allows me to switch between different camera views (top, right, left, etc) by pressing the number keys. Whilst it would be easy to create a number of '.py' files using c4d.CallCommand() and then assign them all manually in the 'Customise Commands' manager, I was hoping I'd be able to create a script that runs for the duration that Cinema is open and reads the user's keypresses, returning c4d.CallCommand() when specified keys are pressed.

Based on the first part of your answer I'd assume I'd need something along the lines of this... but I can't seem to get it to work.

import c4d

def main():

    bc = c4d.BaseContainer()

        # If the '7' key is pressed, enter 'Top' View
        if c4d.gui.GetInputState(c4d.BFM_INPUT_KEYBOARD, c4d.KEY_7, bc):
            if bc[c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE] == 1:
                c4d.CallCommand(12083)  # Enters 'Top' View

        # If the '3' key is pressed, enter 'Right' View
        elif c4d.gui.GetInputState(c4d.BFM_INPUT_KEYBOARD, c4d.KEY_3, bc):
            if bc[c4d.BFM_INPUT_VALUE] == 1:
                 c4d.CallCommand(12080)  # Enters 'Right' View

if __name__=='__main__':
    main()

Any ideas? Thanks again, Maxime! :)

I am new to Cinema, having come from a different 3D software, and have been playing around with the Python API to create various scripts replicating certain functionality in my original software. These scripts have been very simple, typically calling/toggling commands, and I have been binding them to different keyboard shortcuts using the 'Customise Commands' Manager.

My problem is that there is a script I'd like to create that would ideally map different commands to individual key-presses from within the script. Short of creating multiple smaller scripts and binding each of them to individual keys, I was wondering if it was possible to assign shortcuts from within the script itself? Obviously (I'd assume?), this singular script would have to run at startup.

For example:

if  a_key is pressed:
    # do_something

elif a_different_key is pressed:
    # do_something_else

Any detailed answers would be appreciated as I'm still fairly new to Python.
Thanks!