On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 09:23:16AM -0500, Terry Peppers wrote: -> Xiangyi, -> -> Re: Question 1. Syntax error. The traceback was this: -> -> ----- start traceback ----- -> File "postcost.py", line 10 -> fv 1 origin_zip "211300" -> ^ -> SyntaxError: invalid syntax -> ----- end traceback ----- -> -> What you should do is this: -> -> fv(1, "origin_zip", "211300") -> -> You need to quote the field name - in this case "origin_zip" as well -> as the value you're passing to the form "211300) and encase the fv -> function in parentheses. -> -> Re: Question 2. Extracting values from a form. -> -> The way I've solved this problem is the following - I'll let Titus be -> the judge of whether or not it's good practice or not:
[ ... ] looks good to me! I ended up suggesting BeautifulSoup to Xiangyi, which worked better for extracting HTML table locations directly. But the code you sent out (below) is great for getting specific field values. thanks, --titus -> >>> from twill.commands import * -> >>> from twill import get_browser -> >>> u = "http://www.google.com"; -> >>> go(u) -> ==> at http://www.google.com -> 'http://www.google.com' -> >>> fv(1, "q", "twill") -> >>> form = get_browser().get_form("f") -> >>> field = get_browser().get_form_field(form, "q") -> >>> field.value -> 'twill' -> >>> -> ---- end snippet ----- -> -> Some exposition is probably a good thing.... -> -> This snippet sends Twill to Google. It then fills in the Google search -> box field (named 'q' by Google) to the value of 'twill'. It then asks -> Twill to grab the form and grab the field and then ask for the field -> attribute 'value' which is of course 'twill' since that's what we put -> into the search field. -> -> I hope that leads you down the right path. -> -> t. _______________________________________________ twill mailing list [email protected] http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/twill
