How can I call a DLL from a scripting language?

Question

I have a third-party product, a terminal emulator, which provides a DLL that can be linked to a C program to basically automate the driving of this product (send keystrokes,

Answer 1

One way to call C libraries from Python is to use ctypes:

>>> from ctypes import *
>>> windll.user32.MessageBoxA(None, "Hello world", "ctypes", 0);