I was doing something very similar on my windows XP machine a year ago
(with python 2.4) and used Mayukh Bose's Internet Explorer controller
(see http://www.mayukhbose.com/python/IEC/index.php for details/
download). It worked very nicely for my needs and was rather
intuitive (generally much easier and required fewer brain cells than
using urllib) ... here's some clips from the project:
# this window will be for our initial data pull-in
ie = IEController()
ie.Navigate('http://<whateverYourSiteNameIs>')
ie.ClickButton(caption='Advanced')
...
ie.SetInputValue('search_string',strUserID)
ie.ClickButton(name='image')
...
strAllText = ie.GetDocumentText() # gets all html source code
from current page.
...
ie.CloseWindow()
I wish someone could make a similar one for Firefox.
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