Handling windows events using Python

Because it is a script that will run on Windows, the Shell_NotifyIcon to show popup .

Example:

from win32api import *
from win32gui import *
import win32con
import sys, os
import struct
import time

class WindowsBalloonTip:
    def __init__(self, title, msg):
        message_map = {
                win32con.WM_DESTROY: self.OnDestroy,
        }
        # Register the Window class.
        wc = WNDCLASS()
        hinst = wc.hInstance = GetModuleHandle(None)
        wc.lpszClassName = "PythonTaskbar"
        wc.lpfnWndProc = message_map # Também poderia especificar uma wndproc.
        classAtom = RegisterClass(wc)
        # Criar a Janela.
        style = win32con.WS_OVERLAPPED | win32con.WS_SYSMENU
        self.hwnd = CreateWindow( classAtom, "Taskbar", style, \
                0, 0, win32con.CW_USEDEFAULT, win32con.CW_USEDEFAULT, \
                0, 0, hinst, None)
        UpdateWindow(self.hwnd)
        iconPathName = os.path.abspath(os.path.join( sys.path[0], "balloontip.ico" ))
        icon_flags = win32con.LR_LOADFROMFILE | win32con.LR_DEFAULTSIZE
        try:
           hicon = LoadImage(hinst, iconPathName, \
                    win32con.IMAGE_ICON, 0, 0, icon_flags)
        except:
          hicon = LoadIcon(0, win32con.IDI_APPLICATION)
        flags = NIF_ICON | NIF_MESSAGE | NIF_TIP
        nid = (self.hwnd, 0, flags, win32con.WM_USER+20, hicon, "tooltip")
        Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_ADD, nid)
        Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_MODIFY, \
                         (self.hwnd, 0, NIF_INFO, win32con.WM_USER+20,\
                          hicon, "Balloon  tooltip",msg,200,title))
        # self.show_balloon(title, msg)
        time.sleep(10)
        DestroyWindow(self.hwnd)
    def OnDestroy(self, hwnd, msg, wparam, lparam):
        nid = (self.hwnd, 0)
        Shell_NotifyIcon(NIM_DELETE, nid)
        PostQuitMessage(0)

def balloon_tip(title, msg):
    w=WindowsBalloonTip(title, msg)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    balloon_tip("Título para o pop-up", "Corpo da mensagem aqui!")

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For key capture, you can use PyHook , it's a wrapper in> that allows the Hooking technique to be done through a script in Python, in addition to of manipulating keyboard events, you can change the behavior of mouse events.

The example below captures the keystrokes and prints on the screen.

#!/usr/bin/python

import pyHook
import pythoncom

def OnKeyboardEvent(event):
        print event.Ascii

hm = pyHook.HookManager()
hm.KeyDown = OnKeyboardEvent
hm.HookKeyboard()

while True:
        pythoncom.PumpMessages()

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I've already done a python application that captures and sends events from windows, in my keyboard and mouse case, and I used pywin32

Although the name has version for python 64 bit as well.

The library is basically a binding, there may be something you will have to see the api documentation from windows to C and set the constants in your code.

To install, I recommend that you download the installer from its website, choose the latest version of the library and the version compatible with your python (eg: 2.7 64 bit)

To install inside a virtualenv you can use easy_install and pass the local path of installer.exe or url.