Looking 4 a way to send a keyboard press to a specific window

[G+_Bob Samuelson]

Looking 4 a way to send a keyboard press to a specific window.  Would be happy if I could just send it to the ACTIVE window.  

 

EXAMPLE .... send "e" to the open/active notepad program at 1 minute intervals.

[G+_Lee Crocker]

That's a totally OS- and desktop-specific thing to do, so there's certainly no way to do it with standard portable Python. Assuming you're talking about MS Windows, you might look into pywin32, pyHook, or similar add-on packages.

[G+_Darryl Medley]

This Web page shows one way to do it with Python although I haven't tried it myself:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2011-April/600957.html

Under MS Windows you send a WM_CHAR message to the target window. 

[G+_Bob Samuelson]

Thanks for the link.  Looks like what  I was searching for.  Portability not an issue and focused window only will work for my application......

EDITED 3:45 CDT .. does exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks for the help!

import win32com.client

import win32api

 

shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")

shell.Run("notepad") # comment out if notepad is currently running.

win32api.Sleep(100)

shell.AppActivate("notepad")

win32api.Sleep(100)

shell.SendKeys("e")

win32api.Sleep(3500)

shell.SendKeys("e")

win32api.Sleep(2500)