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QuantumRich
QuantumRich

Reputation: 886

Using AutoIt functions with Python

I am new to using AutoIt, and I am trying to use it to automatically click buttons on Windows programs. I have been able to access some functions using import win32com.client and win32com.client.Dispatch("AutoItX3.Control").

But I am wondering if anyone knows of another way of doing this without downloading something else. The thing is, I had to download Pywin32 to do this. Is there something within the native Python libraries that can use AutoIt or its COMs module to run the functions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 946

Answers (1)

NorthCat
NorthCat

Reputation: 9937

Probably, you can use ctypes. For example, follow code sends message Hello to active window:

from ctypes import windll
path = r"C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\AutoItX\AutoItX3.dll"
autoit = windll.LoadLibrary(path)
autoit.AU3_Send(u"Hello{!}", 0)

Also, you can run autoit scripts by using os.system or subprocess.call modules. With os.system:

import os
os.system(r'lowerchange.au3')

With subprocess.call:

import subprocess
subprocess.call(['C:\Program Files\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.exe',r'lowerchange.au3'])

Upvotes: 1

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