On 11/20/2012 07:18 AM, Michael Herrmann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm developing a GUI Automation library (http://www.getautoma.com) and 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? > > Here are my thoughts so far: I could call it 'press' but then our GUI > automation tool also allows you to click things and then "press" might be > mistaken for "pressing a button". A less ambiguous alternative is "type_keys" > but that is rather long and doesn't read as well, for instance in > type_keys(ENTER). > > Thank you very much!
I also vote for send_keys(), even before I saw Chris' reply. 'type' is too overloaded a word. For example, in Windows, it's the command to display the contents of a file - it types it to the screen. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
