What's the best way to handle platform specific keys in Selenium/Webdriver?

Question

My problem is simple:

I want to do a "select all". This is done differently in macosx compared to linux and windows.

Keys.chord(Keys.COMMAND, "a")

vs

Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "a")

Answer 1

In Java, I do little workaround for this:

String os = System.getProperty("os.name");
if (os.equals("WINDOWS")){
   Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, "a");
}else{
   Keys.chord(Keys.COMMAND, "a");
}

Basically - I get the OS where do I run and behave by that accordingly

Answer 2

Since Linux and Windows both support CONTROL, then the only difference would be MAC (Darwin), so I would rather use:

Python:

import platform

os_base = platform.system()

If os_base == 'Darwin':

    selector.send_keys(Keys.COMMAND, 'a')

else:

    selector.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL, 'a')