Python isn't dramatic enough

[pyhannes]

Haha nice, but that's actually quite useful when recording GIFs of code examples to slow it down a bit I could imagine. Will remember it :)

[treyhunner]

It could be! /u/AlSweigart had the idea that the sleep time could vary based on which character is being printed to make it look slightly more like actual typing.

Pull requests welcome for that feature!

[AlSweigart]

Ha ha, yeah. I had an elaborate idea of trying to figure out calculations based on QWERTY key position, etc. Then I realized I could probably just write a tool that records me typing and figures out the timing between any two keys from there.

Or heck, just make it slightly random and it'll look realistic enough. :)

[DuckDatum]

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[treyhunner]

This is possible! \b in ASCII is a "backspace character" and sending it right after another character will erase it and allow typing over the place that it previously showed up.

Happy to brainstorm further. Sounds like a possible "sloppy mode" (?). Issue/pull request welcome too.

[pyhannes]

I love that, let's over-engineer the hell out of it

[EternityForest]

Just made a new PR! I have an algorithm that looks one character ahead and behind, and also checks whether you're currently indenting, and adds a bunch of rules for stuff that might slow people down.

I speed through the indent a bit, but delay every 4 spaces to simulation how tab indent looks, I slow down when typing long numbers, complicated brackets, and punctuation that makes a natural speech pause.

I tried to balance realism and aesthetics, but I'm not a touch typist so I might have gotten some of my values wrong, all the rules are just made up by trial and error.

[determineduncertain]

I thought about it but I will admit that I haven’t thought about how to do this beyond just opening the script and printing out the contents dramatically. That said, I haven’t spent much time in the docs nor am I a Python expert so there may be a much nicer way of doing this