3 ways to do RPA with Python
In this post we'll cover a few packages for doing robotic process automation with Python. Robotic process automation, or RPA, is the process of automating mouse clicks and keyboard presses - i.e. simulating what a human user would do. RPA is used in a variety of applications, including data entry, accounting, finance, and more. We'll be covering pynput, pyautogui, and pywinauto. Each of these three packages can be used as a starting point for building your own RPA application, as well as building UI testing apps. pynput The first package we'll discuss is pynput. One of the advantages of pynput is that is works on both Windows and macOS. Another nice feature is that it has functionality to monitor keyboard and mouse input. Let's get started with pynput by installing…