Re: [Tutor] entering text on web site

2012-06-14 Thread Timo
Op 14-06-12 04:44, Benjamin Fishbein schreef: Thanks. I'm trying to automatically post text to a web page from Python and retrieve the resultant page. It's not just name and password, though; I need to do it over and over again with chunks of info from a list. The page seems to be using POST.

Re: [Tutor] entering text on web site

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Gauld
On 14/06/12 03:44, Benjamin Fishbein wrote: etc. I guess Python didn't come standard with a module that could do what I wanted... Which is the best module to get for this? Python does come with low level modules that you can use but its a lot of work. The suggested add ins are generally easie

Re: [Tutor] entering text on web site

2012-06-13 Thread Benjamin Fishbein
Thanks. I'm trying to automatically post text to a web page from Python and retrieve the resultant page. It's not just name and password, though; I need to do it over and over again with chunks of info from a list. The page seems to be using POST. form method='POST' is written all throughout the

Re: [Tutor] entering text on web site

2012-06-13 Thread Michiel Overtoom
On Jun 13, 2012, at 14:35, Benjamin Fishbein wrote: > I want to put text in a text box on the webpage, have it entered into the > website, and then get the results. Is there a way to do this with Python? http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/ is good for this. -- Test your knowledge of f

Re: [Tutor] entering text on web site

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Prins
Hi, On 13 June 2012 13:35, Benjamin Fishbein wrote: > Hello. I have been teaching myself Python and have been stuck on this problem > for a week--I scoured the web for an answer and even asked a couple computer > programmer friends. > I managed to write a simple program with urllib that downloa

[Tutor] entering text on web site

2012-06-13 Thread Benjamin Fishbein
Hello. I have been teaching myself Python and have been stuck on this problem for a week--I scoured the web for an answer and even asked a couple computer programmer friends. I managed to write a simple program with urllib that downloads the content from web pages; but I want to put text in a te