sending keystroke to a dos application

[Adrian Eyre]

> I have a dos application that runs in a dos window under NT or win98 that
> takes interactive input. Basically numbers to choose from menu items and
> return keys. I have not found a method to script this application by
> sending keystrokes to the dos window. Is there a any possibility 
> to do this with python?

Providing you don't actually need this app to run on MS-DOS, but just
98/NT in a DOS box, you can use:

import msvcrt
key = msvcrt.getch()

...to get a single keystroke.

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