You know, you would probably get more responses if you picked a descriptive subject line that didn't look like spam. I only read your post because I accidentally clicked on it.
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:18:38 -0800, Michael Herrmann wrote: > I'm developing a GUI Automation library (http://www.getautoma.com) and By the way, your website is down. > am having difficulty picking a name for the function that simulates key > strokes. I currently have it as 'type' but that clashes with the > built-in function. Example uses of 'type': > > type(ENTER) > type("Hello World!") > type(CTRL + 'a') > > What, in your view, would be the most intuitive alternative name? I'd keep the name as "type". It exists in a different namespace to the builtin, so people have a choice: they can refer to the fully-qualified name, or not, as they prefer. I don't know the name of your module, since your website is down, but let's say it's called "automata": # Option 1 import automata automata.type("Hello World") # Option 2 from automata import type type("Hello World" import builtins # in Python 2 use __builtin__ instead builtins.type([]) So the name clash doesn't matter. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
