title: Push a button in another program using python
body: <p>I need to have my python program interact with another <a href="http://www.alvgmbh.de/Products/Software/CorrSoftware/corrsoftware.html" rel="nofollow">closed source program</a>. Specifically, I need the python program to be able to "push" the start button in order to tell the program to start collecting data, and to "push" the save button and tell it where to put the save file at a later time. This is so I can automate a complex series of operations, the data collection phase of which can only be controlled from this operating software (doing it manually involves a person sitting around doing nothing but pushing a repetitive series of buttons for 4-5 hours). I believe this should be possible, but I cannot figure out how to do it (made more complicated by the entire thing needing to run on a windows 2000 box, since the card being operated is on an ISA bus and can't physically be put into anything that can run a newer OS). Is there any way to do this?</p>