Re: Fill In a Form Automatically

[Ismail Dönmez]

Friday 07 December 2007 22:06:23 tarihinde Victor Subervi şunları yazmıştı:
> Hi;
> I'm trying to fill in a Zope form automatically. I have this script, which
> works great for creating the page...but how do I write to it?

Use Mechanize [0].

[0] http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/

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Re: reading list of list to a file

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Sunday 09 December 2007 18:11:00 tarihinde caroliina şunları yazmıştı:
> i made a list of lists but i cant write it into a file. how do i get the
> first string in a sublist?

An easy example:

>>> a=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]
>>> a[0][0]
1
>>> a[1][0]
4
>>>

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Re: How to generate pdf file from an html page??

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Wednesday 19 December 2007 17:40:17 tarihinde Terry Jones şunları yazmıştı:
> > "Grant" == Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Grant> On 2007-12-19, abhishek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> > Hi everyone, I am trying to generate a PDF printable format file from
> >>> > an html page. Is there a way to do this using python. If yes then
> >>> > which library and functions are required and if no then reasons why
> >>> > it cant be done.
> >>>
> >>> Here's one way:
> >>>
> >>> --html2pdf.py--
> >>>--- #!/usr/bin/python
> >>> import os,sys
> >>>
> >>> inputFilename,outputFilename = sys.argv[1:3]
> >>>
> >>> os.system("w3m -dump %s | a2ps -B --borders=no | ps2pdf - %s" %
> >>> (inputFilename,outputFilename))
>
> Note that this is highly insecure. outputFilename could be passed e.g., as
>
>   /tmp/file.pdf; rm -fr /home/abhishek

And the solution is to use subprocess [0] instead of os.system()

[0] http://docs.python.org/lib/module-subprocess.html

Regards,
ismail

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Re: Newbie question - what's the term for input/output to a web page?

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Saturday 22 December 2007 03:03:47 tarihinde Rachel Garrett şunları yazmıştı:
> I'd like to write a simple application that will accept input from the
> user, go out to a particular web page, and submit the user's input to
> the website. The results that are displayed by the web page should
> then be sent back to the application.
>
> This seems like something where I could find some easy examples, but I
> don't know what to search for -- I keep getting results for API's, web
> services, etc.
>
> Any pointers, please?

Search for mechanize.

/ismail

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