On Monday 09 June 2008 17:51, W W wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've done some cursory searches, and it doesn't appear that what I
> want to do is popular, if it's even possible.
>
> I'm trying to control other applications via python (specifically
> my web browser).
>
> My hope is there is some way to emulate a series of keypresses. My
> goal is to have a script that will automatically retrieve my
> banking information. Originally I was planning to use urllib to
> post/retrieve the data, but as far as I can tell, the bank uses
> several variables and some javascript to authenticate everything,
> and it seems overly complicated to try and manually figure it all
> out.
>
> Is there a way to utilize python to perform keypresses? And does
> anyone know of a tutorial for such a thing? I'm running the most
> recently updated Ubuntu 8.04.
>
> TIA, Wayne

This discussion might be interesting for you:
http://holovaty.com/blog/archive/2008/05/02/0136

HTH,
Eike.
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