[Tutor] Program to Simulate Keystrokes

[Alan Gauld]

"Megan Land" <mland at us.ibm.com> wrote


> I'm working on a python script to automate a program we run at work.  The
> program is run from one command.  The only problem is that it asks you to
> hit enter to continue after it runs.  Is there a way I can do this?

Assuming it is using stdin/out to read the keystrokes you shjould be able
to use the subprocess module to communicate with the process.
Read stdout, detect the message and send a newline character
to the process.

> If at all possible I need a program that will work on Windows and Linux 
> (I
> know a tall order).  I'm trying to keep this simple but if I have to use
> two different programs I will.

stdin/out should work on both.

If its a GUI program then things get much more complicated!

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Alan Gauld
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