On 2013-03-25, Mitya Sirenef <msire...@lightbird.net> wrote: > I think I would prefer context managers. I don't think it's a > big problem for win users because this behaviour would be one > of the first things documented in the start guide and would be > all over example scripts, so a new user missing or forgetting > it is not a realistic scenario.
If window focus switching is really a rarity, and only done briefly then I agree that a context manager makes a nice and neat solution. But it's too powerful a generalisation for such a small corner case. Have you considered adding a keyword argument to each of your global functions, which is normally None, but allows a user to provide a prefered focus window? enter_text("test.txt", focus=save_dialog) press_button(Savebutton, focus=save_dialog) (Those are just guesses at your API functions; sorry.) When focus remains None, your usual assumptions about focus would apply, otherwise the user preference overrides it. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list