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Re: Automation of Windows app?

From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Automation of Windows app?
Date 2015-03-20 19:58 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On 2015-03-20, Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I'll keep Sikuli in mind.  So far, I've been able to get
pywinauto to do what I need to do [as long as I run programs from the
Windows cmd.exe prompt.  You apparently can't run Windows Python
programs from a Cygwin terminal or ssh session].

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

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Automation of Windows app? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-20 17:55 +0000
  Re: Automation of Windows app? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-20 18:10 +0000
    Re: Automation of Windows app? Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2015-03-20 15:27 -0400
      Re: Automation of Windows app? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-20 19:58 +0000
    Re: Automation of Windows app? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-03-22 21:43 -0600
      Re: Automation of Windows app? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2015-04-01 11:14 +1000
        Re: Automation of Windows app? ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 07:25 -0700
          Re: Automation of Windows app? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-30 17:08 +0200
            Re: Automation of Windows app? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-30 16:18 +0000
    Re: Automation of Windows app? "Jacob Kruger" <jacob@blindza.co.za> - 2015-03-23 08:03 +0200
  Re: Automation of Windows app? Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-03-22 10:41 -0700
  Re: Automation of Windows app? vern.muhr@gmail.com - 2015-03-22 16:54 -0700
    Re: Automation of Windows app? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-03-23 01:01 +0000
      Re: Automation of Windows app? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-03-22 22:31 -0700

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