How to type things with Python script

Question

I would like to know if there is a way to type things with Python using the win32api module. For example, if I want to type in the phrase "Happy Pi Day" into Microsoft Word every three seconds, I would have something like import time

while 1:
    #types Happy Pi Day
    time.sleep(3)

However, I do not know what the command is for the "type" function.

This [question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13564851/generate-keyboard-events) may be helpful. — Michał, Mar 18 '14 at 19:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '14 at 20:04

Is using win32api module a hard requirement? If not, you can use this:

https://code.google.com/p/pywinauto/

Then its easy (more examples here...):

from pywinauto import application
app = application.Application.start("notepad.exe")
app.notepad.TypeKeys("%FX")

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 09 '22 at 08:50

The type function is keyboard here is a link to help with that https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/keyboard-module-in-python/ and to have something typed repeatedly you have this code

import pyautogui

import time
 
time.sleep(10)
 
for line in open("auto file.txt", "r"):
 
    pyautogui.typewrite(line)
     
    pyautogui.press("enter")

here is a link https://www.askpython.com/python/examples/auto-type-text-using-python

How to type things with Python script

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