20CONTROLLING THE KEYBOARD AND MOUSE WITH GUI AUTOMATION
Knowing various Python modules for editing spreadsheets, downloading files, and launching programs is useful, but sometimes there just aren’t any modules for the applications you need to work with. The ultimate tools for automating tasks on your computer are programs you write that directly control the keyboard and mouse. These programs can control other applications by sending them virtual keystrokes and mouse clicks, just as if you were sitting at your computer and interacting with the applications yourself.
This technique is known as graphical user interface automation, or GUI automation ...
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