[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys, been going around in circles with this so I hope you can help! > > My current situation is I'm using Grinder and Jython to test pages, but > the log on process is giving me some headaches. After entering the > correct username and password, you then need to enter 3 characters from > the security phrase. I'm attempting to read the HTML to find out with > characters I need (e.g. 1st, 3rd and 6th char) then look up those > values in the security phrase, but I'm getting stuck on the following > function: > > <code> > > def getValue(page,delimEnd) : > EndVar = page.find(delimEnd) > thisVar = page[EndVar-1:EndVar] > return thisVar > > </code> > > What I'm attemping to pass in is some multiline HTML(above) and pick up > the proceeding character, but it seems to be reading from the end of > the HTML instead!
page.find(delimEnd) returns -1 if delimEnd is not found, and after that you take page[-2:-1], i.e. second last character. So you could add a test for that, if EndVar == -1 etc. but I recommend using page.index(delimEnd) which raises an error if delimEnd is not found. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
