Python Adventures

“autopy is a simple, cross-platform GUI automation toolkit for Python”

Installation

sudo apt-get install libxtst-dev
sudo pip install autopy

Some mouse actions

import time
import autopy as ap
from autopy.mouse import LEFT_BUTTON

def leftClick():
    ap.mouse.click(LEFT_BUTTON)
    time.sleep(.1)
    print "# click"
    
def leftDown():
    ap.mouse.toggle(True, LEFT_BUTTON)
    time.sleep(.1)
    print '# left down'

def leftUp():
    ap.mouse.toggle(False, LEFT_BUTTON)
    time.sleep(.1)
    print '# left release'
    
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if __name__ == "__main__":
    time.sleep(1)
    leftClick()
    leftDown()
    time.sleep(3)
    leftUp()

Related work (20130903)

See also pyrobot: @github, @reddit. Note that pyrobot is for Windows only.