I was reading the docs but could not figure out whether pywinauto uses the Windows Automation API or not. If so, can it do everything the Automation API can or do I need to use .net to harness the full capabilities of the API?
Thank you so much in advance!
pywinauto can use Windows Automation API (a.k.a. UI Automation API) at your choice. It's taken from native UIAutomationCore.dll using native COM interfaces (analogue of UIAComWrapper for .NET to eliminate .NET specific bugs).
This is all described in the Getting Started Guide. All you need is using Application(backend="uia"). Default backend is still "win32" which will be changed in the next major release.