I am trying to open an application and interact with it. I am facing an issue where I do open application, but due to its size it takes a while before it appears, therefore I'd like to catch the app object in a dynamic/pythonic manner.
import os
import subprocess
import win32com.client
timeout = 5
big_app = r'C:\Path2BigApp\app.exe'
os.startfile(big_app)
try:
my_app_obj = win32com.client.GetObject("AppName")
# further steps with my_app_obj
except:
print("nay")
I've tried os.startfile(big_app) which starts app but does not wait for app to be successfully opened, so it always evaluates for "nay", subprocess.call(big_app, timeout) which opens app and freezes python until app is terminated and then evaluates the following code, subprocess.Popen(big_app) what gives the same result as the first option, and subprocess.Popen(big_app).wait(timeout) & subprocess.Popen(big_app).communicate(timeout) which result only in TimeoutExpired error, since no interaction/termination there. I know I could employ some wait/sleep operation in loop, but I am hoping there is more pythonic way to solve that problem. Do you got any advice on that?
Do you have a method to check if your app is loaded successfully?
I'd start a while loop that would try to detect when an app is loaded. If it's not loaded - wait a second and repeat, if loaded then proceed.