How can I control the keyboard and mouse with Python?

Question

How can I control the mouse and keyboard in Python?

The idea is to do the same as the Robot() class in Java. Be able to say: move the mouse from here to here, click there, write that whatever is on the screen.

For Windows there is win32api but I'm using mainly Linux.

For Linux there is Xlib but does it works for keyboard as well? (found only reference to the mouse)

Is there a cross-platform solution? (Linux, Windows and even OS X would be the great.)

Answer 1

for the mouse, I've found pymouse which seems to work (I haven't fully tried it, a small hack needed for the click, cf the issues)

for the keyboard, I'm not sure Xlib can do the job. I'm still looking on how to write something but you can catch key event as explained here or in C here using Xlib (but I don't know C).

here is an example working on gnome only (not good enough yet)

In pymouse, they have a nice way to make it work on the 3 different platform but needs to make 3 code...