atomac 1.1.0 on pypi does not support python 3.
The changes in the master branch should make it work on python 3.
pip3 install git+https://github.com/pyatom/pyatom/

To the best of my knowledge, the one with access to publish releases is no longer active.
Because of that, I've forked a stripped down version of this project (atomacos).

Prior to #160 merge, the project had c-extensions.
I think that might be the reason for the xcode requirements so the extensions can be compiled.

Thanks a lot daveenguyen

Master git installed and working fine (at least first import and launch automator app example)

I have seen your atomacos fork!!! Do you recomend me atomacos or pyatom (atomac)?
I havent clear if xcode is required or not.

Another question...
The documentation of the project seems terrible.
I am trying to:

1. Get the window under the mouse (maybe not the active window).
2. Get the visible control in the tree just under the mouse.
3. Get all text info related to the control (text under mouse).

I have working some with the great pyatspi and I would know if you could make things like get the word, line, sentence or paragraph under the mouse i.e. in a page document. Get selected text, etc.

Thanks for your support.

I think getElementAtPosition with NativeUIElement.getSystemObject()
should get you what you want. (https://github.com/pyatom/pyatom/blob/master/atomac/AXClasses.py#L921)

Texts are typically available in element.AXTitle or element.AXValue

I don't think atomac provides a way to get the current mouse position.
In my project I use pyautogui which can get the mouse position with pyautogui.position()

Thanks a lot.
Seems It works fine with getElementAtPosition.

mouse position its getting from tkinter ( root.winfo_pointerx() & root.winfo_pointery() ), so no problem.

I sucessfully find the text under mouse (mainly with element.AXValue)

It works really fine even in Safari. But now I am searching for the associated link behind the text.
There are a AXParent and AXFocusableAncestor that points to a 'AXLink' object, but inside this object there arent any info about the (http) link.

w = uiatomac.getElementAtPosition([x,y])
for attr in w.getAttributes():
            try:
                print ("w.%s=%s" %(attr, eval("w." + attr)) )
            except:
                print ("w.%s unsuported" %attr)
for attr in w.AXParent.getAttributes():
        try:
            print ("PARENT.%s=%s" %(attr, eval("w." + attr)) )
        except:
            pass

Do you have any clue?
Thanks.

Looksl ike a bug in your code

- print ("PARENT.%s=%s" %(attr, eval("w." + attr)) )
+ print ("PARENT.%s=%s" %(attr, eval("w.AXParent." + attr)) )

I also recommend using getattr(w, attr) for this

This is the results I got
assuming safari is opened, google page loaded and the "About" link is at coordinate "50, 120"

>>> safari = atomacos.getAppRefByBundleId("com.apple.Safari")
>>> element = safari.getElementAtPosition((50, 120))
>>> element.AXParent.AXURL
https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/?fg=1&utm_source=google-US&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hp-header

Ops... I can see the problem:

importig your atomacos and executing... it reports correctly the link URL

importing atomac (this pynput code installed from this master github) and executing the same (safari = atomac.getAppRef...) it report:

'atomac._a11y.ErrorUnsupported: Return value not supported yet...'

So I recomend install your 'atomacos' (simply with 'pip3 install atomacos') instead of 'pyatom'

I have seen that you depend on pyautogui<0.9.42 (for some reason?). Its needed this depend? For me pyautogui a more top level library than pyatom.

Can you create an issue for ErrorUnsupported?