Emulating keyboard events

[Vaughn Treude]

David,
I've done both key capture and keyboard emulation, and I did indeed use 
C++ with X Windows libraries.  I would think somebody has probably 
written Python wrappers for these libraries.  If you're interested, I 
could dust off the C++ stuff I wrote, but it might take me a little 
while to find it.
Vaughn


and I think emulation would be a similar thing.  I   used

David Huerta wrote:
> I'm writing a small python app that I want to emulating pressing the
> "5" keyboard key, but after some searching online it was suggested
> this sort of thing would only be possible in C or C++ using X Windows
> libraries.  I'm not sure where to start, would anyone here be familiar
> with emulating keyboard events in Linux?
>