Python vs VB

[Alex Martelli]

vivek kumar wrote:
   ...
> Like an app is running on windows (say Messanger). It has an OK button.
> Now what You have to do is from your Python program you have to call the
> click function of that OK button widget.
> 
> For this he also gave me a hint that for this U have to first get the
> handle for that particular widget and he used some windows API for that.
> But as I was not a good student in VC++ also, so I don't know what API can
> be used for that. :-(

You use EXACTLY the same Windows API for this task from either Basic or
Python.  It makes no difference which language you're calling the
appropriate API from.  Thus, it's a silly way to compare two languages.

BTW: to call Windows API's from Python you need Hammond's win32all
extensions (the standard Python distribution for Windows does not
include them; you can either get the ActiveState distribution, or get
the standard distribution, get the win32all extensions separately,
and install the latter on top of the former).


Alex