Re: best set of modules for web automation without javascript

2009-02-14 Thread coldpizza
And btw, Selenium scripts can be exported to Python and run under Selenium Remote Control server. I'd say this is the most flexible and advanced way to do webtesting, since you can have a single script that runs with many browsers (opera, firefox, ie, etc), and on many platforms. And combined wit

Re: best set of modules for web automation without javascript

2009-02-14 Thread coldpizza
You should have a look at twill: http://twill.idyll.org It seems to be no longer maintained, but will probably do most of what you expect. And it is built on top of mechanize. On Feb 13, 4:04 pm, News123 wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to do some web automation with python 2.5 > - https: > - a coo

Re: best set of modules for web automation without javascript

2009-02-13 Thread Matias Surdi
You should give a look to Selenium. It's great. http://www.openqa.org News123 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. As far as I understood, there is httplib, but it seems (if I un

Re: best set of modules for web automation without javascript

2009-02-13 Thread News123
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

Re: best set of modules for web automation without javascript

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Rubin
News123 writes: > 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

Re: best set of modules for web automation without javascript

2009-02-13 Thread Marco Mariani
News123 wrote: 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

Re: best set of modules for web automation without javascript

2009-02-13 Thread News123
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 fo

Re: best set of modules for web automation without javascript

2009-02-13 Thread Joe Riopel
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:04 AM, News123 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 urrl

best set of modules for web automation without javascript

2009-02-13 Thread News123
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. As far as I understood, there is httplib, but it seems (if I understood well) to be incoompatible with cookielib I'm a newcomer to webautomation with pyt