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I saw a few ways to open an application using Python but none of them allow me to read the data from inside the application. Is this possible?

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  • I am looking for a module similar to selenium that allows me to interact with my application just like I would do with a web page. I have tried opening applications using subprocess but am not able to interact with them. Commented Sep 30, 2015 at 0:54
  • If you're talking specifically about iTunes, you can copy the library with ctrl+A and paste it into a csv. Then you can use the csv module in Python to read the data in. Commented Sep 30, 2015 at 1:46
  • I actually want to interact with applications through Python and extract the data using Python directly. Commented Sep 30, 2015 at 2:16
  • Are you asking specifically for iTunes, or any general application? Commented Sep 30, 2015 at 4:29

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Windows:

You can interact with programs with pywin32.

Also, check this out: Interact with other programs using Python

You can interact with programs in Python using COM automation.

Mac:

How can I interact with an application on mac through python subprocess?

How do I communicate between python and a mac application?

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This answer is specific to Windows. The question is tagged osx.
A link-only answer which links to other SO questions isn't really appropriate, either. Nominate as a duplicate for one of them (probably the second one) is my suggestion.
@tripleee Got it. Thanks again! :)

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