Welcome to AutoHotkey.py

AutoHotkey.py provides a user-friendly API that lets the user write hotkeys and automation scripts in Python harnessing the power of AutoHotkey. It does so by embedding a Python DLL into the AutoHotkey process.

For the original AutoHotkey documentation visit this link.

• Installation
• Quickstart
  • Command Line Interface
  • Hotkeys
  • Window Management
  • DLL Calls
  • Settings
  • Debugging
• Advanced Usage
  • Threading
  • asyncio
  • GUI
• API Reference
  • Clipboard
    • get_clipboard()
    • set_clipboard()
    • wait_clipboard()
    • on_clipboard_change()
    • ClipboardHandler
  • Exception
    • Error
  • Flow
    • sleep()
    • poll()
    • suspend()
    • resume()
    • toggle_suspend()
    • restart()
    • output_debug()
    • coop()
    • ahk_call()
  • GUI
    • Menus
    • Message Boxes
    • Tooltips
    • Window Messages
  • Keyboard and Mouse
    • Hotkeys and Hotstrings
    • Sending
    • Mouse
    • Key States
    • Input Blocking
  • Settings
    • get_settings()
    • set_settings()
    • local_settings()
    • default_settings
    • Settings
  • Timers
    • set_timer()
    • set_countdown()
    • Timer
  • Windows
    • windows
    • visible_windows
    • all_windows
    • Windows
    • WindowHandle
    • BaseWindow
    • Window
    • Control
    • WindowStyle
    • ExWindowStyle
• Appendix
  • Python Equivalents of AutoHotkey Keywords

Indices and tables

• Index

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