"Chris Maloof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello, > > Does anyone know how I can read the ASCII text from a console window > (from another application) in WinXP? It doesn't sound like a major > operation, but although I can find the window via pywin32, I haven't > been able to do anything with it. I'd really just like to get the > window text into a string. > > By "console window", I mean the sort of thing that comes up when you > run "command" (although this particular one is for the game NetHack). > > Thanks, > Chris
Check out the Win32 Console functions on MSDN, such as AlocConsole(), ReadConsoleOutput(), GetStdHandle(). I don't see an easy way to get the screen buffer handle unless you are the process that owns the console, however. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
