keyboard emulation

[shr2408]

Is there a lib in python which allows automation of keyboard sequences (for want of a better expression 'keyboard emulation') I'm pretty new to python, so please be easy on me if it's a really daft question. :P Thanks.

[Gribouillis]

There is the SendKeys module http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/sendkeys/. I'm not using it, but other people in this forum can tell you more about it.

[lllllIllIlllI]

Ah good old SendKeys. I have written whole programs using this. Its a really great module to use. It is really simple but it has one pitfall in my mind. That is that every time that you use it NumLock is disabled. I know that dosent affect some people because they either dont use the numpad or they have laptops that dont actually have a numpad.

Here is a quick example of Sendkeys:

from SendKeys import SendKeys as sk
import time
sk('{LWIN}')
time.sleep(0.1)
sk('r')
sk('notepad.exe')
sk('{ENTER}')
time.sleep(2)
sk('hello{SPACE}world')

[woooee]

There is also xvkbd, but it is a console program and so is accessed via:
os.system('xvkbd -test "string to type" ')
http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato/xvkbd/

[shr2408]

Whoops, forgot to mention that I need the lib for linux :$ Thanks for the tips, though, if I ever return to Windoze they'll make a good starting-point.

[woooee]

xvkbd runs on Linux and SendKeys has a source package, probably a python extension, so it should work but I haven't tried it.

[shr2408]

Thanks, woooee, I've had a quick look at xvkbd and suspect that it isn't quite what I need. One of the things I want to do is to pass sections of text to a speech-app (e.g. eSpeak); so, I'll have to spend a bit more time looking at the xvkbd-options. Thanks, once again.