Re: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Jerry Hill
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Doran, Harold wrote: > Thanks, Jerry. Tried that, as well as various other possible names to no > avail. You'll need to dig into the documentation then, probably starting in one of these two places: http://pywinauto.openqa.org/howto.html http://pywinauto.openqa.or

RE: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Doran, Harold
09 3:09 PM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Use python to execute a windows program > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Doran, Harold > wrote: > > I am working with this now. I'm toying with the examples to > test out a > > few things and learn ho

Re: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Jerry Hill
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Doran, Harold wrote: > I am working with this now. I'm toying with the examples to test out a > few things and learn how this works. I've made some modifications such > that I have the following working (below). This does nothing more than > open a program. > > I

RE: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Doran, Harold
iday, September 11, 2009 11:02 AM > To: Doran, Harold > Cc: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Use python to execute a windows program > > 2009/9/11 Doran, Harold : > > The way we do this now is a person sits in front of their > machine and > > proceeds as follows:

Re: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Alan G Isaac
Does the Windows application offer a COM interface? http://oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Simon Brunning
2009/9/11 Doran, Harold : > The way we do this now is a person sits in front of their machine and > proceeds as follows: > > 1) Open windows program > 2) Click file -> open which opens a dialog box > 3) Locate the file (which is a text file) click on it and let the > program run. It might very wel

Use python to execute a windows program

2009-09-11 Thread Doran, Harold
Dear list: My question is conceptual at the moment. Current problem: I have a windows-based program that reads in a file and from that file generates data that is saved to a file. The way we do this now is a person sits in front of their machine and proceeds as follows: 1) Open windows program