That's a very good suggestion Emile!! So I might eventually need both 'press' and 'release' (or press_key/release_key). Thanks for this!
To everyone else who has been so kind to reply thus far: What do you think of generate_keystrokes? It's a bit long but describes exactly what the function would be doing. All of you are a great help and I really appreciate it. Thank you! Michael On Tuesday, 20 November 2012 17:21:38 UTC+1, emile wrote: > On 11/20/2012 04:18 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' > > > > I have several tools that distinguish between press and release for > > this. You may want to consider having both. > > > > Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list