On Monday, March 25, 2013 10:08:53 PM UTC+1, Chris Angelico wrote: > ... > > I kind of like the context manager solution because the indentation makes > > it very obvious what happens in which window. You are right about our > > target group though. Also, the "with" is not as explicit as it probably > > should be. > > What happens at the __exit__ of the context manager? What happens if > context managers are nested? I'd be inclined to the simpler option of > an explicit switch (since focus doesn't really "stack" and it'd feel > weird for focus to *sometimes* switch away when you're done working > with one window), though the context manager syntax does have its > advantages too.
You are right, an __exit__ for a window doesn't really make sense and neither does stacking. There's also the problem that the focus window may change - for instance when closing it. What happens if you're still inside the "with ..." then? At first glance, I think the context manager solution looks nice syntactically, but maybe it isn't the way to go here. > ... > > > We'd of course love to support other platforms but don't currently have the > > resources to do this. We actually just wrote a blog entry about this and > > some related questions: http://www.getautoma.com/blog/automa-faq If we have > > something wrong, do let us know in the comments over there! > > > Make the API clean enough and someone else might well write a Linux > equivalent. Then it'll be as simple as a try/import/except/import at > the top and multiple platforms will work. Yes, that's a good point. A clean API is very important to us (hence my posting here). Thanks for your answer! Michael -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
