Can I run other programs with Python?

Question

Let me be more specific.

I want to create a series of audiofiles, each containing a range of frequencies. That is done most easily with Audacity, but it would take forever to do it manually since there are a lot of frequencies to deal with. So the question is:

Can I make a script that will open Audacity, press all the required buttons within the program and fill in the necessary values, and then save the files?

If that's also confusing, can I use Python to make a script that will move the cursor to a specific location, order it "to click" something?

Answer 1

I would check out Audacity's scripting wiki . Once you get that up and running you can use the subprocess module to call external commands via python.