Re: Web automation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi Mike, > thank you very much for your reply. > I know that mine could be considered >> a "very" silly way to define automation. > but I'm not a purist nor a professional > programmer. Yes, but you still need to communicate with other people. Using words to mean someth

Re: Web automation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While I was posting the reply to Mike I saw the last > contribution of Paul Boddie. > > From what he says I infer that he is a Windows programmer Far from it! OutlookExplorer was written as an experiment when I had to use Windows in a corporate environment. I don't run W

Re: Web automation

Hi Mike, thank you very much for your reply. I know that mine could be considered > a "very" silly way to define automation. but I'm not a purist nor a professional programmer. Besides that, I know that case by case every problem can be solved and in more "right" way, also in very difficult environ

Re: Web automation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The contribution of Paul Boddie is valuable. I too examined DCOP > and even chose as browser Konqueror, being a KDE application. > But DCOP doesn't go to such a low level. It is not possible > to send a simulated keystroke from one KDE application to another. I imagine t

Re: Web automation

"Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: >> "Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > The problem on non-Windows systems is the lack of a common (or >> > enforced) technology for exposing application object models >> OS X has AppleScript. VM/CMS has Rexx. The Amiga had ARe

Re: Web automation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > answering to Mike Meyer who replied to the following > assertion on my part: > >> but I supposed the everyone knew that web automation > >> (and in general "automation") is only a problem in Linux. > with...: >> I don't know it. I don't believe it, either. I automate

Re: Web automation

Hi all, answering to Mike Meyer who replied to the following assertion on my part: >> but I supposed the everyone knew that web automation >> (and in general "automation") is only a problem in Linux. with...: > I don't know it. I don't believe it, either. I automate web tasks on > Unix systems (

Re: Web automation

Mike Meyer wrote: > "Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The problem on non-Windows systems is the lack of a common (or > > enforced) technology for exposing application object models > > OS X has AppleScript. VM/CMS has Rexx. The Amiga had ARexx when MS was > still peddling DOS. Plan 9 ha

Re: Web automation

"Paul Boddie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Meyer wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > but I supposed the everyone knew that web automation (and in general >> > "automation") is only a problem in Linux. >> I don't know it. I don't believe it, either. I automate web tasks on >> Unix systems

Re: Web automation

Mike Meyer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > but I supposed the everyone knew that web automation (and in general > > "automation") is only a problem in Linux. > > I don't know it. I don't believe it, either. I automate web tasks on > Unix systems (I don't use many Linux systems, but it's the

Re: Web automation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > but I supposed the everyone knew that web automation (and in general > "automation") is only a problem in Linux. I don't know it. I don't believe it, either. I automate web tasks on Unix systems (I don't use many Linux systems, but it's the same tool set) on a regular b

Re: Web automation (was: Pressing a Webpage Button)

Hi all, I must correct myself: > With such a method you can bypass the Google's restrictions, because > you are using the browser (only building automatically the query). Of course that's not correct because you are using a program (twill) different from a browser and if google controls from where

Re: Web automation with twill

Hi Michele, I only made the observation about Zope, because I hoped to hear a different point of view as you are/were involved in web development using Zope/Plone (as referred in your article...). Besides that, at a Linux Day, I followed a presentation of Zope/Plone framework, which stroke me a lot

Re: Web automation with twill

qwwwee: > By the way, are you aware that C. Titus Brown (twill's author) > tells "peste e corna" of Zope? No, but I am not surprised. I also say "peste e corna" of Zope ;) In general I am an anti-frameworks guy (in good company with many Pythonistas including Guido). Michele Simionato

Re: Web automation with twill

Hi Michele, I taught to be the smartest in town! But when the experts take the field it is better that us newbies retire in good order... Thank you for your article and, with respect to Grig Gheorghiu (another expert), I must apologize for having be a little rude. I hadn't discovered in Internet y

Re: Web automation with twill

BTW, O'Reilly just published an article of mines on twill: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2005/11/03/twill.html Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Web automation (was: Pressing a Webpage Button)

Twill or Pamie looks good, if your looking for a solution using Python. If you are looking for Cross- browser solution for testing there is also selenium that does that. The have some code for use in Python. There is also WATIR in RUBY and SAMIE in PERL It depends on your enviroment and needs.

Re: Web automation (was: Pressing a Webpage Button)

Twill or Pamie looks good, if your looking for a solution using Python. If you are looking for Cross- browser solution for testing there is also selenium that does that. The have some code for use in Python. There is also WATIR in RUBY and SAMIE in PERL It depends on your enviroment and needs.

Re: Web automation (was: Pressing a Webpage Button)

Hello, It's fairly easy to do see code below: ## from win32com.client import DispatchEx import time # instaniate a new IE object ie = DispatchEx('InternetExplorer.Application') # Naviagte to the site ie.Navigate("www.google.

Re: Web automation with twill

I solved the problem by myself with the classical method of newbyes (trial and error). Bye. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Web automation with twill

You might want to post your question to the twill mailing list. Info about the list is available at Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list