I was looking through the archives of the Twill mailing list and noticed this thread:
http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/twill/2006-February/000190.html Brett asks about how he can get form values and Titus gives a good response on how to nab them. I'm having a similar problem. Let's say I have a form that is like the following: <form id="frm" name="foo" action="http://foo.com/do_something.php"; method="POST" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"> <input id="1001" name="select_1001" type="submit" value="Get It!" /> <input id="1001" name="select_1001" type="submit" value="Get It!" /> <input id="1002" name="select_1001" type="submit" value="Get It!" /> <input id="1002" name="select_1001" type="submit" value="Get It!" /> </form> OK, so why are there two buttons on the page that have the same value? I can't answer that, all I can say is that this is the hand I've been dealt and I'm not sure how to get around it. So anyway, after looking @ the Brett/Titus thread on how to pull out values, I figured I could use the same concept to pull out 'id' and 'name.' Here's my stab @ it using the Python interpretter and Twill. <begin code> >> from twill import get_browser >> from twill.commands import * >> url = "http://foo.com"; >> go(url) ==> at http://foo.com >> b = get_browser() >> f = b.get_form("foo") >> field = b.get_form_field(f, "name") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/browser.py", line 373, in get_form_field raise Exception('no field matches "%s"' % (fieldname,)) Exception: no field matches "name" >>> field = b.get_form_field(form, "select_1001") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/browser.py", line 375, in get_form_field raise Exception('multiple matches to "%s"' % (fieldname,)) Exception: multiple matches to "select_1001" <end code> So that's my question, if I have two sets of identical buttons how can I access either the 'name' values or the 'id' values? In a perfect world I could put the contents in a list and randomly pick whatever comes back. I was trying to do this with a regular expression, but I think that would be pretty djanky and not suck a good idea. t. _______________________________________________ twill mailing list [email protected] http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/twill
