Sending keystrokes to Windows exe programs

[Alex van der Spek]

I can start a windows program on Vista with:

>>> import subprocess
>>> dva=subprocess.Popen(DVAname,stdin=subprocess.PIPE)

Unfortunately sending keystrokes with communicate() does not appear to work:

>>> dva.communicate('F2')

this does not produce any result but it does make IDLE become really idle.

 >>> dva.terminate()

however does work fine and kills the program as it should.

Is there a way or do I have to go back to Visual Basic?

Regards,
Alex van der Spek