On 25/12/16 01:58, boB Stepp wrote:
> the stdin option of call()might be used to direct the desired
> keystrokes to LO? After looking at
The problem is that keystrokes in a GUI are not read from
stdin, they are read as events from the GUI event loop.
So, if LO was a CLI tool (like vim or top, sa
On 12/24/2016 07:43 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
On 25/12/16 01:21, Jim Byrnes wrote:
I am not trying to automate libreoffice using subprocess.
No, but you are trying to automate LO from within Python
by sending it keystrokes and that's not easy. That's why I
previously asked whether you r
On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 3:08 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
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> On 25/12/16 01:58, boB Stepp wrote:
>
> > the stdin option of call()might be used to direct the desired
> > keystrokes to LO? After looking at
>
> The problem is that keystrokes in a GUI are not read from
> stdin, they are read as e
On 25/12/16 17:08, boB Stepp wrote:
> Then I see that I have a GCE (Gross Conceptual Error) floating around.
> I thought that event loops are just intercepting the redirected stdin
> from the keyboard. This is not true? If not, then how is this
> working?
No event loops don't use stdin. They ar
