[Tutor] How to add modules?

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

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> From: eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com>
>To: Naman Kothari <kotharinaman at yahoo.in> 
>Cc: tutor at python.org 
>Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 2:37 PM
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] How to add modules?
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>On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
>> As I'm not a windows user have no first-hand experience with the above. Once
>> you have pip installed you can search the Python package index (aka "Cheese
>> Shop", <https://pypi.python.org/pypi>) with
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>pip requires a C compiler, such as VC++ or MinGW, in order to install
>source packages that include C extensions.
>
>pip doesn't support exe installers, but these can be converted to the
>Wheel format that pip 1.4 supports.
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>https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wheel
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>pip is great for virtual environments. But for system installations,
>it's simpler to use exe/msi installers that can be uninstalled from
>the Windows control panel.
>
>> $ pip search sendkeys
>> SendKeys                  - An implementation of Visual Basic's SendKeys
>> function
>
>Christoph Gohlke distributes a Python 2.7 installer for SendKeys:
>http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#sendkeys
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>The SendKeys site on rutherfurd.net is down, but archived (2012-10-25):
>http://web.archive.org/web/20121025123135/http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/sendkeys

I recently used this version: http://code.google.com/p/sendkeys-ctypes/downloads/list
SendKeys started as a ctypes implementation, then as something else, then as a reimplementation of ctypes. This is the latter. I don't recall the details but I chose the ctypes reimplementation because the other didn't work for me. Just imported it after adding the path to sys.path. Worked nicely but it's highly sensitive to interrupting screens such as chat/mail notifications.