Code snippet below shows how to get the window title and application name of the active application. That is the application on top of the z-order. Need to install pywinauto to get this to work. import pywinauto.application import pywinauto.handleprops as _handleprops import pywinauto.win32functions as _win32functions import time while 1: hwnd = _win32functions.GetForegroundWindow() print "Active Window title is %s"%(_handleprops.text(hwnd)) print "Application name is %s"%(pywinauto.application.process_module(_handleprops.processid(hwnd))) time.sleep(2) ~ts
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