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Date Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:39:43 -0500
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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.

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10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-20 04:18 -0800
  Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 23:23 +1100
  Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-20 13:09 +0000
  Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-20 05:17 -0800
  Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-20 05:20 -0800
  Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Dave Angel <davea@dejaviewphoto.com> - 2012-11-20 08:39 -0500
    Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-11-20 14:39 +0000
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  Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 17:35 +1100
    Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-21 07:01 +0000
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  Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! markus.moldaschl@gmail.com - 2012-11-21 01:29 -0800
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  Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-22 10:00 -0800
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