Are there libraries for automating (using Python) the management of a program run by a user on a Linux operating system?
I need to create tests to test the program interface (pressing buttons, entering text in special fields, reading text from the program window).
UPD:
pywinauto - as I understand it, this library is only suitable for managing Windows applications
UPD2:
The application that needs to be managed works on the basis of Visual Studio, maybe I can somehow connect to it using selenium?
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I got python code that has no GUI and works in terminal. Can I convert it to apk and run on android?
I'm just curious if it's possible.
No, you cannot directly run a Python script in the terminal as an Android app. Python scripts are typically run on a computer using the Python interpreter, and Android devices use the Android operating system which is different from the typical computer operating systems.
However, you can use a tool such as Kivy, which is a Python library for creating mobile apps, to create an Android app from your Python script. Kivy provides a way to package your Python code into an Android app, so you can run it on an Android device.
I am sure there are other tools providing this option as well. These tools essentially bundle the Python interpreter and your script into a single executable file, so the user doesn't need to have Python installed on their device to run your app.
I believe there are tutorials on youtube as well so as to how to use Kivy to run your python code. I hope this helps :)
i am trying to take user inputs in a popup and i have tried so many ways i.e. external libraries of python that works with GUI (tkinter, pyqt, easygui etc. etc. etc.)
Is there any way to do the same without such GUI library ???
And the reason i want to avoid these GUI lib is: i want to use this feature on multiuser web application running on linux remote server, and there is problem of DISPLAY variable on it.
If anyone going to suggest for this DISPLAY error solution with ssh X forwarding, then as i said its multi user web application, how would it be possible to forward DISPLAY to multiple users ???
I will be glad if i can find the answer of first question of having a solution to do without any external GUI lib .... thanks
I have the application installed on my windows PC, I want to launch that application using python and select dropdown options and do some other activities in that application.
I was able to launch the application using the os.system command, but I am not able to proceed further.
I want my program to do things like:
* select from a dropdown menu
* click on a button
How can my application control the user interface of another application?
Normally, an application exposes a user interface (UI) for users, and an application programming interface (API) for programming.
A human being uses keyboard and mouse to work with the user interface (UI)
An application uses programming to work with the application programming interface (API)
The UI is designed for humans, and the API is designed for computers.
It is sometimes possible to use programming to control the user interface of another program -- so your program acts as if it were using the keyboard and mouse. This technique is often called "UI automation", and programs that do it are sometimes called "robots".
It's a big topic, and it can be quite complex. It's almost always better to use an API instead if you can: it's faster, simpler, more reliable.
If you do need to use UI automation, there are a few different tools that can help.
You are asking about Python, so here are a few UI automation tools that work with Python:
AutoIT is a standalone product, but you can use Python to script it.
PyWinAuto is designed for use from Python.
Sikuli uses computer vision to find parts of the screen. I believe it comes with a recording tool as well.
Just to repeat: UI automation is weird and hard. If you can possibly use an API instead, your life will be much easier.
You need to install pywinauto package
Try the following code to run the .exe file
from pywinauto import application
app = application.Application()
app.start("Notepad.exe")
here you are:
(with os ^_-)
import os
os.startfile('your exe file address')
I am currently trying to write a script to automate the ATTO disk benchmark GUI. I can use the script to successfully locate images in the GUI, but I can not get any clicks generated by the script to register in the application. I have modified the script to test if I could use the PyAutoGUI package to click things in other applications, and have been able to successfully click things in other applications. Has anyone else had this issue with other applications using the PyAutoGUI package, and if so did you ever find any solution to the issue?
Please try to run your script with administrative privileges. If you are using Powershell then run powershell as administrator
Does anyone know of a library that enables you to run an application inside some kind of sandbox, with virtual mouse and keyboard support.
The use case would be to create some kind of visual test runner, that would replay all actions taken during recording and play them back.
So far I found autopy, but the fact that it controls the real mouse position is problematic, because it prevents user interaction with other tools (debugger or anything) while running.
Cross platform would be nice, but either windows or os x is fine. Python would be ideal but anything that you could create python bindings for would be ok too.
On Linux, you could run autopy inside a VNC session.
There is also pywinauto or watsup.
On Linux you can use Swinput for simulating mouse/key events. There are few Python wrappers around the X libraries: Python X Library, PyX11Remote. You may also looking for Xvfb, which allows to setup a virtual X11 server, so you don't have to run the tests on your physical screen.
If you need to test only an application developed using Qt, GTK, Java SWT/Swing there are few test frameworks for doing this.