Python for Autohotkey style key-combination sniffing, automation?

Question

I want to automate several tasks (eg. simulate eclipse style ctrl-shift-R open dialog for other editors). The general pattern is: the user will

Answer 1

You may want to look at AutoIt. It does everything that AutoHotKey can do, but the language syntax doesn't make you want to pull your hair out. Additonally, it has COM bindings so you can use most of it's abilities easily in python if you so desired. I've posted about how to do it here before.

Answer 2

Found the answer using pyHook and the win32 extensions:

import pyHook
import pythoncom

def OnKeyboardEvent(event):
    print event.Ascii

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

while True:
    pythoncom.PumpMessages()