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AutoPy Introduction and Tutorial

by Michael Sanders

Outline

Introduction
What is AutoPy?
How so?
Getting Started
Requirements
Installation
Hello World
Tutorials
Controlling the Mouse
Working with Bitmaps
Closing & API Reference
License
Summary
MIT License
The FreeBSD Documentation License

Introduction

What is AutoPy?

AutoPy is a simple, cross-platform GUI automation toolkit for Python. It includes functions for controlling the keyboard and mouse, finding colors and bitmaps on-screen, and displaying alerts -- all in a cross-platform, efficient, and simple manner.

How so?

Portable
Works on Mac OS X, Windows, and X11.
Efficient
Written in pure ANSI C.
Simple
AutoPy is designed as a toolkit, not a framework -- it doesn't get in your way. At the same time, convenience functions are provided where useful.*
Easy
AutoPy is designed to be simple and easy-to-understand, both for the end user and the implementor; that is, both the public API and the internals are straightforward and well-documented. It should be easy to pick up, and easy to modify if you need.

* (Note that this leaves the door wide open for frameworks built off of AutoPy; for instance, a library could be written for a more specific task, such as automating a game, that uses AutoPy as its backbone. This allows framework writers to take advantage of all the above qualities while having the luxury of writing in Python.)