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Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Wed Oct 15 09:48:12 EDT 2003 
"Matteo Memelli" <cipher at be4mind.com> writes:

> Hello, does anybody know if it is possible to capture video output
> signal with python? Is there any module which could help doing this?
> If it's not possible, is there a way to capture a snapshot of a
> window or d desktop with python?

This sort of thing is very OS dependent...

> I would like to write a simple app that allows somebody to watch
> what I'm doing while working on a project.

What's wrong with VNC?  It's not in Python, to be sure, but it sounds
pretty much like what you want.

Cheers,
mwh

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