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On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 6:41 PM CET Emile van Sebille wrote:

>On 3/20/2015 10:55 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> I need to automate operation of a Windows application.
>
>I've been productively using python to create macro scheduler [1] scripts to automate windows programs for years.
>
>A sample script:
>
>Press Alt
>Send Character/Text>cu
>Release Alt
>WaitWindowOpen>Sheets*
>Wait>1
>Press Alt
>Send Character/Text>ls
>Release Alt
>Wait>1
>Wait>1
>Press Alt
>Send Character/Text>fs
>Release Alt
>Wait>1
>
>
>HTH,
>
>Emile
>
>
>[1] https://www.mjtnet.com/
>
>-- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

I've used SendKeys before: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SendKeys/0.3

There's also a ctypes implementation of it.