Synthesizing key events in windows
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For my video switch I want to be able to synthesize key events that look like they originated from the keyboard. The function SendInput in the user32.dll looks like the right low-level goods but Pete points out that the WScript.Shell has a SendKeys method that is easier to use. The Python code looks like:
import win32com.client ws_shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell") SendKeys = ws_shell.SendKeys
DevGuru has a table of the key encodings.