How to control app from Python?

[Aaron J Reichow]

> I don't know much about the way the app works.  I hope to know a whole
> lot more about it in the next couple of days ;-)
> 
> This is the first time I've tried to write code in any language to
> control another application.  It's very interesting.  Lots to learn!

It's a shame Linux/Unix didn't have some unified API (probably a misuse of
the word) like as in MacOS, where one can access the items in the menus,
&c, with AppleScript.

Aaron