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| Date | 2013-03-27 09:56 -0400 |
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| From | Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> |
| Subject | Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) |
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On 03/27/2013 05:10 AM, Michael Herrmann wrote:
>> At the very least, for small dialogs it's sipmpler to do:
>> >
>> > with press(CTRL + 's'):
>> > write("test.txt", into="File name")
>> > click("Save")
> I think what the context manager approach really has going for itself
> is the syntactic structure it gives to scripts, that makes it easy to
> see what is going on in which window. Semantically, however, I think
> the fit of this approach has some rough edges: The fact that there
> needs to be some special treatment for ALT + TAB, that actions such as
> `press` "sometimes" return values that are needed to continue the
> script and so on. It really has its appeal, but I think it's a bit too
> special and intricate to be used by a broad audience.
>
I think alt-tab has to be special in any case. Regular alt-tab would act
like the GOTO statement. As a programmer looking at a script you have no
idea where you just alt-tabbed to without possibly looking through
dozens of lines of previous code.
Keypresses that start a new window also seem pretty special to me.
They're inherently special. After all, the essential function of a
windowing system is when a new window is created, which means subsequent
operations have an entirely different meaning, in a text editor <del>
key will delete a character, in a file manager <del> key will delete a
file!
But, as I mentioned, if you can get away with treating simple dialogs
implicitly (and I don't see why you can't, at this point), that'd be the
preferred way for me.
-m
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Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-25 12:29 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-03-25 20:42 +0100
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-25 13:48 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-26 08:08 +1100
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 01:53 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-26 22:38 +1100
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 05:13 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 05:13 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-25 13:48 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-03-25 16:11 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 02:06 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-26 06:26 -0400
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 05:04 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-26 08:42 -0400
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 07:33 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-26 22:37 +0000
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-27 02:34 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-03-27 09:45 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-28 03:54 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-28 00:42 +0000
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-28 04:41 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-26 12:59 +0000
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 07:26 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-03-25 19:40 -0400
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 02:38 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-26 22:43 +1100
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 05:18 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-03-26 09:41 -0400
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 07:59 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-27 02:16 +1100
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-27 01:45 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-03-26 18:01 -0400
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-27 02:10 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-03-27 09:56 -0400
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-28 03:52 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-03-26 14:13 +0000
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-26 07:40 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-26 12:41 -0400
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-03-26 17:25 +0000
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-27 01:55 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-27 22:44 +1100
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-27 05:23 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-03-27 05:23 -0700
Re: Help me pick an API design (OO vs functional) Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2013-04-04 00:05 -0700
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