In fact what you're describing is exactly what I needed. I ended up finding a way to execute the javascript using Rhino and then capturing the result. Not exactly what I wanted to do, but once I found it out, it works.
Melih Onvural On Jan 30, 2:57 pm, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Melih Onvural wrote: > > Thanks, let me check out this route, and then I'll post the results. > > > Melih Onvural > > > On Jan 29, 4:04 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On 29 Jan 2007 12:44:07 -0800, Melih Onvural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > > >>> I need to execute some javascript and then read the value as part of a > >>> program that I am writing. I am currently doing something like > >>> this:Python doesn't include a JavaScript runtime. You might look into > >>> the > > >> stand-alone Spidermonkey runtime. However, it lacks the DOM APIs, so it > >> may not be able to run the JavaScript you are interested in running. There > >> are a couple other JavaScript runtimes available, at least. If > >> Spidermonkey is not suitable, you might look into one of them. > > This is getting to be a common problem. One used to be able to > look at web pages from a program by reading the HTML. Now you need to > load the page into a browser-like environment, run at least the > OnLoad JavaScript, and then start looking at the document object module. > This requires a browser emulator, a browser without a renderer. > Useful for spam filters and such. > > It's not clear if the original poster needs that much capability, > though. > > John Nagle -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
