https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywinauto/0.3.9 or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1823762/sendkeys-for-python-3-1-on-windows
Python "SendKey" looks like it probably works about the same as the Perl version. It prints or sends control information to the active window.
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