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Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!

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Date 2012-11-21 07:57 +1100
Subject Re: 10 sec poll - please reply!
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.95.1353445048.29569.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:18:42 -0800, Michael Herrmann wrote:
>
>> Thanks again for your further replies. So far, it's 4 votes for
>> 'send_keys' and 1 vote for 'type'.
>>
>> Regarding 'send_keys': To me personally it makes sense to send keys _to_
>> something. However, in our API, send_keys would not be called on an
>> object or with a parameter indicating the target. It would just be
>>
>> send_keys(ENTER)
>> send_keys("Hello World!")
>> send_keys(CTRL + 'a')
>
>
> "send_keys" is wrong, because you aren't sending keys. You're sending
> strings, except you aren't actually sending strings either, because
> "send" does not make sense without a target. You're automating the typing
> of strings, including control characters.

That depends on what the function actually does. If it sends a single
command to blat a string, including control characters, to the target,
then yes, it's sending a string. But if, as my reading of the OP tells
me, the last one is "send press-Ctrl, send press-a, send release-a,
send release-Ctrl", then it's sending keys, and the name should say
so. And it's this method that the key-sender in the Yosemite project
uses (though, for hysterical raisins, its function is called "dokey" -
which I am NOT recommending).

ChrisA

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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
  Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-20 07:18 -0800
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    Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-20 16:21 +0000
      Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 07:57 +1100
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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! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-21 09:19 -0800
  Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-22 10:00 -0800
    Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-23 06:08 +1100
      Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-22 13:45 -0800
      Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-22 13:45 -0800
    Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-23 05:41 +0000
      Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-23 01:08 -0800
        Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-23 08:15 -0800
    Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-23 05:42 -0800
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        Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-23 09:29 -0800
      Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-11-23 22:30 +0000
        Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Michael Herrmann <michael.herrmann@getautoma.com> - 2012-11-24 12:56 -0800
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