How do I take out the focus or minimize a window with Python?

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Published on 2010-05-07T20:30:24Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 21:38 UTC
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I need to get focus to a specified window, and the only way I'm seeing on my head, is minimizing all windows on front of it until I get the right one...

How can I do it?

Windows 7, and no specific toolkit....

Every type of window, for example, firefox and console command

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