Question

Is it possible to make it appear to a system that a key was pressed, for example I need to make A key be pressed thousands of times, and it is much to time consuming to do it manually, I would like to write something to do it for me, and the only thing I know well enough is Python.

A better way to put it, I need to emulate a key press, I.E. not capture a key press.

More Info (as requested): I am running windows XP and need to send the keys to another application.

Answer 1

Install the pywin32 extensions. Then you can do the following:

import win32com.client as comclt wsh= comclt.Dispatch('WScript.Shell') wsh.AppActivate('Notepad') # select another application wsh.SendKeys('a') # send the keys you want 

Search for documentation of the WScript.Shell object (I believe installed by default in all Windows XP installations). You can start here, perhaps.

EDIT: Sending F11

import win32com.client as comctl wsh = comctl.Dispatch('WScript.Shell')  # Google Chrome window title wsh.AppActivate('icanhazip.com') wsh.SendKeys('{F11}')