10 sec poll - please reply!

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 07:23:35 EST 2012


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Michael Herrmann
<michael.herrmann at getautoma.com> 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?

I've done similar things under names like "send_keys".

ChrisA



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