Hi Marco / Paul, Thanks
I'll look into mechanize,ClientForm and BeautifulSoup. All three are now installed. I'll just have to play with them. bye N News123 wrote: > Hi Joel, > > Thanks, > This (the urllib2 methods you combined with cookielib) is what I am > currently trying to do. > > I would just like to retrieve all the field names and default values of > a form. (Some forms are huge) and wondered thus whether there's already > a python module parsing a html documents for forms , form fields and > field vaules, returning an objcet. that could be modified and posted. > > > bye > > N > > > > Joe Riopel wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:04 AM, News123 <news...@free.fr> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I'd like to do some web automation with python 2.5 >>> - https: >>> - a cookiejar >>> - some forms to be filled in >>> what is the best set of modules. >> I have automated some testing of our product, using it's web UI with >> Python with urllib2 and urrlib. I don't actually fill in the forms, I >> just recreate the post and set the values of the post variables (so I >> don't get any form validation). >> >> Check out: >> urllib2.build_opener >> urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor >> urllib2.Request -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
