Received: by 10.224.186.20 with SMTP id cq20mr12106367qab.8.1353464109015; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:15:09 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!i9no1454940qap.0!news-out.google.com!gf5ni3626919qab.0!nntp.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: Alan Bawden Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: 10 sec poll - please reply! Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:15:08 -0500 Organization: MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 5 Message-ID: References: <3d71f175-164e-494c-a521-2eaa5679b524@googlegroups.com> <7290a127-97e1-4032-98ae-6e602b87b74b@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: scooby-doo.csail.mit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: grapevine.csail.mit.edu 1353464108 87074 128.30.2.141 (21 Nov 2012 02:15:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: security@csail.mit.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:15:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oopby+ceFsRofD3bDPZyCpT0YN8= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:33695 Since the event being generated is commonly called a "keystroke", and since my dictionary defines the noun "stroke" as being: "the act of striking", a good verb to choose for the action itself would seem to be "strike": strike('a')