Recording and playing macros

Macros are an extremely powerful tool that allow you to record and replay a set of actions.

Let's perform the same operation as before, using macros. We have the following code in farm.py:

...
def act(self, target):
    for animal in self.animals:
        if animal.get_kind() == 'cat':
            print(animal.act(target, 'meows'))
        elif animal.get_kind() == 'dog':
            print(animal.act(target, 'barks'))
        elif animal.get_kind() == 'sheep':
            print(animal.act(target, 'baas'))
        else:
            print(animal.act(target, 'looks'))
...

We'd like to reorder arguments in animal.act calls. Open farm.py, and move your cursor to the top of the file with gg:

Enter macro recording mode using q followed by any register (let's pick a), as follows: qa...