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On 08/04/2014 11:53 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>
> I've never used the API from Python but random console access is
> documented at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms687404%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>

Would using the API from Python involve doing the wrapping yourself or 
do you know about an existing package for the job ?

By the way (and off-topic), how would you do it on Linux?

Wolfgang