[Tutor] Opening a dos exe

[Emile van Sebille]

On 3/10/2010 11:33 AM Armstrong, Richard J. said...
>The problem comes in that the dos program requires three
> inputs (input1.txt, input2.txt and input3.txt - see attached picture)
> but I cannot find a way of getting this information to the dos program
> from python. Any ideas?

I've sometimes written python code to create wsh (and other) scripts 
that I then run from within python.  WSH include a sendkeys command IIRC 
that works with dos/command/cmd windows.  There's likely ways to use the 
win32 api as well (win32api.keybd_event?).

I currently use a tool called macroScheduler from www.mjtnet.com just 
for the windows automation tasks I run into (scripted from within python).

There's also http://pypi.python.org/pypi/SendKeys/0.3, but at this point 
if I were to start over I'd look closely at 
http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/sendkeys/

HTH,

Emile