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How can I launch an Android app on a device through Python?

I have consulted several topics on the subject, but I didn't see any related to launching an app on a device directly using a ppadb command.
I managed to do this code:
import ppadb
import subprocess
from ppadb.client import Client as AdbClient
# Create the connect functiun
def connect():
client = AdbClient(host='localhost', port=5037)
devices = client.devices()
for device in devices:
print (device.serial)
if len(devices) == 0:
print('no device connected')
quit()
phone = devices[0]
print (f'connected to {phone.serial}')
return phone, client
if __name__ == '__main__':
phone, client = connect()
import time
time.sleep(5)
# How to print each app on the emulator
list = phone.list_packages()
for truc in list:
print(truc)
# Launch the desired app through phone.shell using the package name
phone.shell(????????????????)
From there, I have access to each app package (com.package.name). I would like to launch it through a phone.shell() command but I can't access the correct syntax.
I can execute a tap or a keyevent and it's perfectly working, but I want to be sure my code won't be disturbed by any change in position.

From How to start an application using Android ADB tools, the shell command to launch an app is
am start -n com.package.name/com.package.name.ActivityName
Hence you would call
phone.shell("am start -n com.package.name/com.package.name.ActivityName")
A given package may have multiple activities. To find out what they are, you can use dumpsys package as follows:
def parse_activities(package, connection, retval):
out = ""
while True:
data = connection.read(1024)
if not data: break
out += data.decode('utf-8')
retval.clear()
retval += [l.split()[-1] for l in out.splitlines() if package in l and "Activity" in l]
connection.close()
activities = []
phone.shell("dumpsys package", handler=lambda c: parse_activities("com.package.name", c, activities))
print(activities)

Here is the correct and easiest answer:
phone.shell('monkey -p com.package.name 1')
This method will launch the app without needing to have acces to the ActivityName

Using AndroidViewClient/cluebra, you can launch the MAIN Activity of a package as follows:
#! /usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from com.dtmilano.android.viewclient import ViewClient
ViewClient.connectToDeviceOrExit()[0].startActivity(package='com.example.package')
This connects to the device (waiting if necessary) and then invokes startActivity() just using the package name.
startActivity() can also receive a component which is used when you know the package and the activity.

python map drive programmatically in Windows 10

I'm trying to map a remote path on Windows 10 for serveral hours but i don't get it to work. At first i tried it with WNetAddConnection2 but no matter what credentials or flags i use, when I type net use the mapped drive has always the status not available.
Manually i can map drives without problems, I only have problems when i map the drive programmatically.
import win32wnet
import win32netcon
nr = win32wnet.NETRESOURCE()
nr.dwScope = win32netcon.RESOURCE_GLOBALNET
nr.dwType = win32netcon.RESOURCETYPE_DISK
nr.dwUsage = win32netcon.RESOURCEUSAGE_CONNECTABLE
nr.lpLocalName = 'Z:'
nr.lpRemoteName = '\\\\192.168.178.46\\Test'
win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(nr, None, None, 25)
The 25 is a flag set of interactive and prompt. I don't get any errors and the drive is listed when i type net use, but the status is always not available and the drive is not visible under workstation.
After that I tried NetUseAdd:
import win32net
win32net.NetUseAdd(None, 3, {'remote': r'\\192.168.178.46\Test',
'local': 'Z:', 'username': 'Admin', 'password': '123',
'status': 0, 'flags': 1, 'asg_type': 0})
It runs successfully but net use doesn't list anything and no mapped drives are visible under workstation.
A solution without subprocess would be nice. Can someone help please?
EDIT: Now i understand why it doesn't work. The app is running in admin context and I'm current logged in as non-admin. This behaviour is expalined here: https://superuser.com/questions/495370/why-isnt-a-mapped-drive-available-under-an-elevated-cmd-prompt-but-is-under-a-r
Is it possible to run the app as admin but the WNetAddConnection2 method as current user??
EDIT 2: Following the instructions from eryksun i came up with this:
import ctypes
from win32security import TOKEN_IMPERSONATE, TOKEN_ALL_ACCESS
from win32process import GetWindowThreadProcessId
from win32api import OpenProcess
from win32security import OpenProcessToken
from win32security import ImpersonateLoggedOnUser
from win32security import RevertToSelf
user32 = ctypes.WinDLL('user32', use_last_error=True);
user32.GetShellWindow.restype = ctypes.c_void_p
handle = user32.GetShellWindow()
threadId, processId = GetWindowThreadProcessId(handle)
handle_op = OpenProcess(TOKEN_ALL_ACCESS, True, processId)
handle_opt = OpenProcessToken(handle_op, TOKEN_IMPERSONATE)
ImpersonateLoggedOnUser(handle_opt) # throws access denied error
SOLUTION:
import ctypes
from win32process import GetWindowThreadProcessId
from win32api import OpenProcess
from win32security import OpenProcessToken, ImpersonateLoggedOnUser, RevertToSelf, TOKEN_QUERY, TOKEN_DUPLICATE
from win32con import PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION
user32 = ctypes.WinDLL('user32', use_last_error=True);
user32.GetShellWindow.restype = ctypes.c_void_p
handle = user32.GetShellWindow()
threadId, processId = GetWindowThreadProcessId(handle)
handle_op = OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION, False, processId)
handle_opt = OpenProcessToken(handle_op, TOKEN_QUERY | TOKEN_DUPLICATE)
ImpersonateLoggedOnUser(handle_opt)
try:
nr = win32wnet.NETRESOURCE()
nr.dwScope = win32netcon.RESOURCE_GLOBALNET
nr.dwType = DISK
nr.dwUsage = win32netcon.RESOURCEUSAGE_CONNECTABLE
nr.lpLocalName = 'Z:'
nr.lpRemoteName = '\\\\192.168.178.46\\Test'
win32wnet.WNetAddConnection3(None, nr, None, None, 25)
except:
print("Unexpected error...")
RevertToSelf()

win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(win32netcon.RESOURCETYPE_DISK, drive,
networkPath, None, user, password)
Drive is the local drive you want to map the network drive to, e.g. X:\
For networkpath add \\ in the beginning of the path, e.g. \\\\networkpath02 if you can access the path with \\networkpath02 in explorer.

CreateRestrictedToken - SidsToDisable

I am learning Python security (Windows API) and particularly trying to start up notepad.exe as a restricted user using the CreateRestrictedToken API. Currently when I execute the script, notepad.exe starts up with the DISABLE_MAX_PRIVILEGE (0x1) as expected.
In addition to DISABLE_MAX_PRIVILEGE (0x1), I would like to disable some SIDs, such as Administrators (S-1-5-32-544), Authenticated Users (S-1-5-11), and Console Logon (S-1-2-1). I have attempted to disable the Administrators SID; however, it fails with the following error:
TypeError: 'PySID' object has no attribute '__getitem__'
There seems to be a structure in the SID_AND_ATTRIBUTES, but I'm not quite sure how to put it together.
My Python build is x64 version 2.7.4.
import win32process
import win32job
import time
import win32event
import win32security
import win32api
from random import randint
ph = win32process.GetCurrentProcess()
th = win32security.OpenProcessToken(ph,win32security.TOKEN_ALL_ACCESS)
admins = win32security.ConvertStringSidToSid("S-1-5-32-544")[0]
token = win32security.CreateRestrictedToken(th, 1, admins, None, None)
startup = win32process.STARTUPINFO()
(hProcess, hThread, processId, threadId) = win32process.CreateProcessAsUser(token, "C:\\Windows\\Notepad.exe", None, None, None, True, win32process.CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB, None, None, startup)

The SidsToDisable parameter of PyWin32's CreateRestrictedToken takes a PySID_AND_ATTRIBUTES. This is a sequence of (PySID, Attributes) tuples. The attributes are ignored in this case, so use 0. For example:
import os
import win32process
import win32security
token = win32security.OpenProcessToken(win32process.GetCurrentProcess(),
win32security.TOKEN_ALL_ACCESS)
disabled_sids = [(win32security.CreateWellKnownSid(sidt), 0)
for sidt in [win32security.WinBuiltinAdministratorsSid,
win32security.WinAuthenticatedUserSid]]
# WinConsoleLogonSid (81) requires Windows 8.
# Use the string SID instead.
disabled_sids.append(
(win32security.ConvertStringSidToSid("S-1-2-1"), 0))
token_r = win32security.CreateRestrictedToken(
token, win32security.DISABLE_MAX_PRIVILEGE,
disabled_sids, None, None)
notepad_path = os.path.join(os.environ['SystemRoot'], 'notepad.exe')
startup = win32process.STARTUPINFO()
(hProcess, hThread,
processId, threadId) = win32process.CreateProcessAsUser(
token_r, notepad_path, None, None, None,
True, win32process.CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB, None, None, startup)

How do I list hosts using Ansible 1.x API

Ansible-playbook has a --list-hosts cli switch that just outputs the hosts affected by each play in a playbook. I am looking for a way to access to same information through the python API.
The (very) basic script I am using to test right now is
#!/usr/bin/python
import ansible.runner
import ansible.playbook
import ansible.inventory
from ansible import callbacks
from ansible import utils
import json
# hosts list
hosts = ["127.0.0.1"]
# set up the inventory, if no group is defined then 'all' group is used by default
example_inventory = ansible.inventory.Inventory(hosts)
pm = ansible.runner.Runner(
module_name = 'command',
module_args = 'uname -a',
timeout = 5,
inventory = example_inventory,
subset = 'all' # name of the hosts group
)
out = pm.run()
print json.dumps(out, sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(',', ': '))
I just can't figure out what to add to ansible.runner.Runner() to make it output affected hosts and exit.

I'm not sure what are you trying to achieve, but ansible.runner.Runner is actually one task and not playbook.
Your script is a more kind of ansible CLI and not ansible-playbook.
And ansible doesn't have any kind of --list-hosts, while ansible-playbook does.
You can see how listhosts is done here.

Using Python to ssh with no modules

I'm in a pickle with writing a script that can SSH into device, run a command and parse that data out to a file. I've written this using Pyparsing and Exscript then I found out that the device I'm going to be using this on is using Python 2.4.4 and Debian 4.1.1 so the modules will not work on this. Now I am back to the drawing board trying to find out how to do this with NO modules. Anyone have any reference or point me in the right direction for this? Thank you in advance.
Here is my code:
from Exscript.util.interact import read_login
from Exscript.protocols import SSH2
import uuid
from pyparsing import *
import re
import yaml
account = read_login()
conn = SSH2()
conn.connect('172.0.0.1')
conn.login(account)
conn.execute('foobar')
data = conn.response
conn.send('exit\r')
conn.close()
###### PARSER ######
date_regex = re.compile(r'\d\d-\d\d-\d\d')
time_regex = re.compile(r'\d\d:\d\d:\d\d')
pairs = [{'category': 'General Information',
'kv': Group(Word(alphanums) + Word(alphanums))},
{'category': 'Last Reset:',
'kv': Group(Word(alphas, max=1) + Word(alphas)) + Literal(':').suppress()
+ Group(Regex(date_regex) + Regex(time_regex)
+ Optional(SkipTo(LineEnd())))
}
]
# build list of categories with associated parsing rules
categories = [Word("# ").suppress() + x['category']
+ OneOrMore(Group(x['kv']))
for x in pairs]
# account for thing you don't have specific rules for
categories.append(Word("#").suppress() + Optional(SkipTo(LineEnd())) +
Group(OneOrMore(Combine(Word(alphanums) + SkipTo(LineEnd()))))
)
# OR all the categories together
categories_ored = categories[0]
for c in categories[1:]:
categories_ored |= c
configDef = OneOrMore(categories_ored)
suppress_tokens = ["show all", "SSH>", "Active System Configuration"]
suppresses = [Literal(x).suppress() for x in suppress_tokens]
for s in suppresses:
configDef.ignore(s)
result = configDef.parseString(data)
for e in result:
print(e)
with open('/Users/MyMac/development/data.yml', 'w') as outfile:
outfile.write( yaml.dump(e))
UPDATE
I have followed the advice below and now have Pexpect installed and found a older version of Python-Pyparsing that I have also installed. So I'm on my way again to getting my scripts to work with modules. Thanks!

Looks like this is already solved, but...
As long as your SSH is configured for this host (or the host doesn't require you to log-in), you should be able to do the following.
import os
""" This will execute foobar on the remote host
and store the command output to a text file
on your machine."""
os.system("ssh 172.0.0.1 foobar > ~/data.txt")
""" Commence processing """
data = open("data.txt", mode='r')
# and so on and so on
You can also use the subprocess library, but os.system for these types of tasks is the simplest IMO.