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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:27:21 -0400
Subject: Re: Automation of Windows app?
From: Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> I need to automate operation of a Windows application.

I've used Sikuli (http://www.sikuli.org/) for similar things in the
past.  It's an automation framework built on Jython, and it worked
great for what I needed at the time.

I think AutoHotKey is also widely used for automating windows GUI
apps, but it's not related to python at all.

-- 
Jerry