Thank you all for your kind answers.
I was going to use just shell.SendKeys("fu bar"), but as your answers
suggested pywinauto is a ready framework that covers all I need.I wanted to play some politics with TNT, but I'm new in the company and my manager won't listen :). Meitham Wolfgang Draxinger wrote: > Meitham wrote: > >> My question is, how do I write the data into another >> application fields. My target application is the TNT >> consignment manager. I asked TNT for their API to make my life >> easier but they refused to release it :(. > > You know what the word "market" means? Just tell TNT, that it > seems they don't need you as a customer and so you will change > to another parcel service. > > I had the very same situation with a regional parcel service a > few years ago, you won't believe how quick they were in > providing me with API information, in the prospect of loosing a > valuable customer (the fact that you want to automatize the > process suggests, that you have a lot of stuff to be delivered). > > If they still don't bite, just show them a calculation, that it's > cheaper for you, to choose another parcel service that might > cost more, but you can save that money with the automatized data > entry. > > Of course it's possible to send keypresses, mouse moves/clicks > and other messages to another application, but then you _MUST_ > make sure, that no other application or a user interferes in the > process, and if an update of the software changes the interface > you have to reimplement the stuff from grounds up. > > Wolfgang Draxinger -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
