Sending CTRL-C event to console application

[Daniel Clark]

On Feb 9, 9:12 am, "Daniel Clark" <djbcl... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm going to try taking a different approach by using a GUI Automation
> tool like WATSUP [1] or pywinauto[2] next.

This works:

AutoIT [1] code (compiled to an executable):
    Run(@ComSpec & ' /k ' & $CmdLineRaw )
This was necessary because other means of starting cmd.exe didn't
actually spawn a new window. Syntax is just like:
    C:\> autoitrun.exe "cd c:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM & dir /s/p"
And that will pop up a new cmd.exe window with a dir /s/p listing of
cd c:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM

Python code (changes service to be able to interact with desktop and
then runs the above):

import win32service
import os, sys

def EnsureInteractiveService(servicename):
    scm = win32service.OpenSCManager(None, None,
win32service.SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS)
    try:
        svc = win32service.OpenService(scm, servicename,
win32service.SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS)
    except:
        print '''Error: Couldn't open service with name "''' +
servicename + '''"'''
        sys.exit(1)
    oldsvccfg = win32service.QueryServiceConfig(svc)
    win32service.ChangeServiceConfig(svc, # scHandle
                                     oldsvccfg[0] |
win32service.SERVICE_INTERACTIVE_PROCESS, # serviceType
                                     oldsvccfg[1], # startType
                                     oldsvccfg[2], # errorControl
                                     oldsvccfg[3], # binaryFile
                                     oldsvccfg[4], # loadOrderGroup
                                     oldsvccfg[5], # bFetchTag
                                     oldsvccfg[6], # serviceDeps
                                     oldsvccfg[7], # acctName
                                     '', # password
                                     oldsvccfg[8]) # displayName
    win32service.CloseServiceHandle(svc)
    win32service.CloseServiceHandle(scm)

EnsureInteractiveService("TSM for WPLC")
os.chdir("c:\\Program Files\\WPLC-TSM\\updates")
os.system("autoitrun.exe dir /s/p")

[1] AutoIt v3 - Automate and Script Windows Tasks
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/