Just use

# from pywinauto.SendKeysCtypes import SendKeys # old for pywinauto==0.5.x
from pywinauto.keyboard import send_keys

send_keys('some text{ENTER 2}some more textt{BACKSPACE}', with_spaces=True)

Docs: https://pywinauto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/code/pywinauto.keyboard.html

P.S. SendKeysCtypes was renamed to keyboard in pywinauto 0.6.0+.

Answer from Vasily Ryabov on Stack Overflow
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pywinauto.keyboard — pywinauto 0.6.8 documentation
Automate typing keys or individual key actions (viz. press and hold, release) to an active window by calling send_keys method.
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GitHub
github.com › pywinauto › pywinauto › issues › 1202
Send keystrokes not work for notepad and other programs
April 7, 2022 - application connect to a notepad · send_keystrokes · from pywinauto.application import Application app = Application().connect(title_re="a.txt") app.top_window().send_keystrokes("aaaaa") Pywinauto version: 0.6.8 · Python version and bitness: 3.7 · Platform and OS: windows 10 ·
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python - pywinauto send key down to application - Stack Overflow
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I don't want to press it in the context of any application window. Just a raw keypress of a keyboard key, like a or enter or backspace. ... Save this answer. Show activity on this post. ... # from pywinauto.SendKeysCtypes import SendKeys # old for pywinauto==0.5.x from pywinauto.keyboard import ... More on stackoverflow.com
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how do I use SendKeys? I am using pywinauto 0.6.5 and Python 3.5.1
I am trying to send the following ####to a terminal window### from pywinauto import keyboard keyboard.SendKeys.send('jsmith') ######################## but when I try to run the above, I rec... More on github.com
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I'm doing automation scripting in Python for my desktop application. In that I'm sending TAB key/any key to my windows form. But I'm not able to find handle of that Windows form in my Python script. ... __author__ = 'juhis' import SendKeys import sys import os from Tkinter import * import ctypes import win32gui import pywinauto ... More on stackoverflow.com
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r/learnpython on Reddit: pywinauto not sending keystrokes to application
May 19, 2024 -

Hello,

I'm new to using pywinauto for some automation. I'm in the process of making a program that can automate on Pokemon Heartgold by using DesMuME. Initially, I was using pyautogui to automate the keystrokes and it was working perfectly. However, pyautogui needs the window to be in focus, which makes it so that I cannot use my computer to do other things in the meantime. This is when I started looking into pywinauto, to try and send keys to the program in the background while I do other things.

The issue is that none of the keystrokes are being sent. I'm still very new to pywinauto, and I might be doing things incorrectly, but I am not entirely sure. I've tried methods like type_keys(), send_chars() and send_keystrokes() but I was getting errors on each of them. I tried importing the send_keys() method from pywinauto.keyboard, but it doesn't work.

This is the code I have so far to initialize the application:

from pywinauto import Application
from pywinauto.keyboard import send_keys
import pywinauto
import time

app = Application(backend='uia').connect(title_re='DeSmuME')
desmume = app.window(title_re='DeSmuME')

# Even trying to send keystrokes while the window is focused, no luck
# desmume.set_focus()

# attempts at sending keys:
desmume.type_keys('{UP}')
desmume.send_chars('{UP}') # Error 
desmume.send_keystrokes('{UP}') # Error
send_keys('{UP}')

I don't really know what else there is to try. The pyautogui solution works as it should, but this would make it so much easier to run the program and leave it in the background while I do other things. If anyone knows how to fix, I would greatly appreciate it.

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from pywinauto.keyboard import SendKeys <...code> SendKeys('{DOWN}') # Keyboard input # in case of element element.type_keys('{DOWN}') ... Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments. ... When I say "key down" I mean holding keys down, not down arrow. Also, does this send it the application or just replicate keyboard events in the active window?
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[PyWinAuto] Please help me with Typekeys ()
Hello everyone, I have some code as below: from pywinauto import application from pywinauto import keyboard app = application.Application() app.connect(path= r'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe') dlg = app.top_window_() dlg.TypeKeys('cd /d C:\Program Files...
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pywinauto.keyboard — pywinauto 0.6.6 documentation
pywinauto.keyboard · Edit on GitHub · Keyboard input emulation module · Automate typing keys or individual key actions (viz. press and hold, release) to an active window by calling send_keys method. You can use any Unicode characters (on Windows) and some special keys listed below.
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pywinauto.keyboard — pywinauto 0.6.5 documentation
pywinauto.keyboard · Edit on GitHub · Keyboard input emulation module · Automate typing keys or individual key actions (viz. press and hold, release) to an active window by calling send_keys method. You can use any Unicode characters (on Windows) and some special keys listed below.
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how do I use SendKeys? I am using pywinauto 0.6.5 and Python 3.5.1 · Issue #533 · pywinauto/pywinauto
August 7, 2018 - I am trying to send the following ####to a terminal window### from pywinauto import keyboard keyboard.SendKeys.send('jsmith') ######################## but when I try to run the above, I rec...
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pywinauto Documentation Release 0.6.6 The pywinauto contributors community
July 28, 2006 - pywinauto is a set of python modules to automate the Microsoft Windows GUI. At it’s simplest it allows you to send · mouse and keyboard actions to windows dialogs and controls. ... The core concept is described in the Getting Started Guide. A lot is done through attribute access (__getattribute__) for each class. For example when you get the attribute · of an Application ...
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SendKeys/TypeKeys always sends text to active window, ignores target · Issue #133 · pywinauto/pywinauto
January 19, 2016 - Using Windows 7, Anaconda Python 3.5 (32bit). pxplus[u'Edit4'].TypeKeys('9.26') Simply sends the text 9.26 directly to my text editor instead of the control specified. I've tried this with other controls also without success. Unfortunate...
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For the specified UI element this method is

# it will activate target window if it's not in focus
ditto.ditto.SysListView321.type_keys('^e')

but

keyboard.SendKeys('^e') # should work also if you don't change active window

It can be used without binding to any specific control.

So you shouldn't try using module name (like keyboard) as an attribute name of any object. It's Python. Just learn Python basics and you will understand pywinauto better as well.

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To complete Vasily's answer. Here is the code needed to edit a single ditto item (it works... most of the time)

from pywinauto import findbestmatch
from pywinauto.application import Application
from pywinauto import remote_memory_block
from pywinauto import keyboard
from pywinauto import timings
import time  #needed for time.sleep(3)


keyboard.SendKeys('^*') # custom shortcut to launch the specific ditto "group" 
time.sleep(2)  # wait 2 sec for the app

ditto=Application().connect(path='Ditto.exe')
time.sleep(0.5) 

##find & select item

#The list of texts to search through: 
texts = ditto.ditto.SysListView321.texts()[1:] #skip window text itself

# The list of items corresponding (1 to 1) to the list of texts to search through.
items = ditto.ditto.SysListView321.items()   #>>[]  

found_item = findbestmatch.find_best_match('test', texts, items, limit_ratio=0.1).Select()

## Extra: open the item in editor
# Bring the window to the foreground first
ditto.ditto.set_keyboard_focus() # (work also with set_focus but it remove the cursor) 

# edit the selected entry (it's a shortcut)
keyboard.SendKeys('^e') 

# Wait (for the windows to load)
time.sleep(1) # 1 sec

# Select all
keyboard.SendKeys('^a')

ditto.Editor.close()
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pywinauto.readthedocs.io › en › uia › code › pywinauto.keyboard.html
pywinauto.keyboard — pywinauto 0.6.0.rc1 documentation
The tips and tricks at http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32.sendinput might be useful! ... pywinauto.keyboard.SendKeys(keys, pause=0.05, with_spaces=False, with_tabs=False, with_newlines=False, turn_off_numlock=True)¶
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r/Python on Reddit: Another example for pywinauto
September 12, 2018 - Put result from Calculator to Notepad. This is so far from perfect but I hope every one can help make this code better for any Python newbie. Here the code on my github. Happy coding. ... # Another pywinauto example from pywinauto import Desktop, Application, keyboard import time # Open Calculator in Windows 10 and do some calculation app = Application(backend='uia').start("calc.exe") dlg = Desktop(backend="uia").Calculator dlg.type_keys('3') # Add some delay between each key stroke time.sleep(1) dlg.type_keys('/') time.sleep(1) dlg.type_keys('7') time.sleep(1) dlg.type_keys('=') # Get calcula
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github.com › pywinauto › pywinauto › issues › 1111
Sendkeystrokes and Mouseclick on minimized window · Issue #1111 · pywinauto/pywinauto
September 11, 2021 - My target is to send keystrokes and do mouse clicks (without moving the mouse) on an inactive window. Thanks to your amazing answers on stack overflow and pywinauto documentation, I was able to manage to put together a working code (where I am passing the window title of the target Google Chrome browser window through cmd): from pywinauto.application import Application target_window = win32gui.FindWindow(None, (args["windowtitle"])) app = Application() app.connect (handle=target_window) app.window(title=args["windowtitle"]).send_keystrokes("{VK_ESCAPE}") app.window(title=args["windowtitle"]).click(button='left', coords=(1191,1044))
Author   madtatu-development
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python 3.x - Send keys with pywinauto doesn't work completely - Stack Overflow
July 11, 2022 - I want to send keys to a background program, but the sending doesn't work on all parts of my program (it has no child windows). The following code partially works. from pywinauto import Application appWavie = Application(backend='win32').connect(handle=790164) Wavie = appWavie['Wavie'] Wavie.send_keystrokes('123')
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PyWinAtuto - Python Windows GUI Automation ~ Code Helpout
April 11, 2014 - Download appropriate version of SendKeys module installer from here. All the dependencies are installed , now download 'pywinauto' bundle(zip file) from here. ... Copy pywinauto and sandbox folders from extracted location to "C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages" (default python external modules folder) Installation of pywinauto is completed with previous step, test pywinauto using the below script. import pywinauto app = pywinauto.application.Application() app.start_("notepad") above code will invoke notepad application.