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 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. This would be no problem if we did this for a small number of files. But, we repeat this process for a few hundred files. So, the human is sitting in front of the machine repeating this process for days until we have all data generated. Question: Is it possible to write a python script that would automate this process such that it could interact with the windows program, loop through all of the text files in a directory rather than the human repeating this process for days. I have sued python quite a bit to parse XML and text files, but I have never used it such that it would interact with a program designed to work in windows. So, I'm not sure if such a problem is conceptually possible. I wish I could provide minimal commented code, but I am not sure where to even start with this problem other than to first ask if it is conceptually possible. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list