How to put computer to sleep using subprocess.call?

Question

I'm in the middle of making a Python script to shutdown, restart, hibernate or put to sleep after a few seconds.

I know its subprocess.call(["shutdown", "/s"]) to shutdown, "/r" to restart and "/h" to hibernate.

How can you put the computer to sleep using call() on Windows 10?

`shutdown -s` is the command on windows and you can add the `-t` param to give a time in seconds like `60` for a minute — user1767754, Dec 01 '17 at 19:08

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '17 at 19:09

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Shutdown doesn't have a function for Sleep integrated however you can use the following: rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0

answered Dec 01 '17 at 19:09

dmuensterer

Do i use this with subprocess.call ? – wintermute Dec 01 '17 at 19:20
Yes, that's propably the easiest way. – dmuensterer Dec 01 '17 at 19:22
Could you please write it out for me ? I'm having trouble with the syntax. thanks – wintermute Dec 01 '17 at 19:28
It seems that this just returns 0 and does nothing more – wintermute Dec 01 '17 at 19:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '21 at 18:47

I know this is asked 3 years ago, but if anyone looking for help, I found a way for sleep with pyautogui

First download and install pyautogui with terminal using command pip download pyautogui and pip install pyautogui

import pyautogui

pyautogui.hotkey("alt", "f4")
time.sleep(1)
pyautogui.press("left")
time.sleep(1)
pyautogui.press("enter")

(I am too new to python coding, there must be easy and more suitable ways to do this. Sorry if I sound so noob.)

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