On Mar 18, 7:25 pm, Carl <tg2.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 18, 1:56 pm, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > > > > > In article <mailman.2143.1237407931.11746.python-l...@python.org>, > > R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > > > >That said, I've heard mention here of something that can apparently be > > >used for this. I think it was some incarnation of Webkit. I remember > > >someone saying you wanted to use the one with, I think it was GTK > > >bindings, even though you were dealing with just network IO. But I don't > > >remember clearly and did not record the reference. Perhaps the person > > >who posted that info will answer you, or you will be able to figure out > > >from these clues. Unfortunately I'm not 100% sure it was Webkit. > > > By the power of Gooja! > > >http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/aed53725885a9250 > > -- > > Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ > > > "Programming language design is not a rational science. Most reasoning > > about it is at best rationalization of gut feelings, and at worst plain > > wrong." --GvR, python-ideas, 2009-3-1 > > Probably the easiest thing is to actually use a browser. There are > many examples of automating a browser via Python. So, you can > programmatically launch the browser, point it to the JavaScript > afflicted page, let the JS run and grab the page source. As an added > bonus you can later interact with the page by programatically, filling > form fields, selecting options from lists and clicking buttons. > > HTH, Carl
Selenium. It's not pretty for what I want to do but it works ... then again, what I need to do is not pretty either. Ciao, Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
