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I have been writing a few AHK scripts which automate tasks within a GUI, and they work wonderfully. However, I need to launch the scripts from a python controller. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to get the two programs to communicate with each other beyond writing to a temporary file and reading out the contents. Obviously, this is less than ideal- has anyone else built something like this that works?

I'll answer my own question in case anyone else needs to do the same thing-

Its possible to write to stdout in AHK using the scheme:

FileAppend, text, *

On the python side, the AHK script should be called using the subprocess module like so:

p=subprocess.Popen(r'"C:\program files\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe" "your_script.ahk"', stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

then, you can access stdout via
p.stdout.read()

Don't forgot to close it too to clean everything up p.stdout.close()