Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: >> Automation doesn't simulate button presses > Rather than saying that it *doesn't*, it might be better to say that it > doesn't *necessarily* simulate button presses.
I'm no Windoze guru but I always understood Automation (sometimes written with a capital A) to refer to a specific set of interfaces. I.e. it's not a generic term for driving one program with another. As with almost everything, there's a wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLE_Automation > The thing about simulating button presses is that: > (1) you can absolutely guarantee that it does exactly the same as what Yes, this is valuable for UI testing and there were/are several testing systems that work that way. Automation is something different. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
