[cse491] twill tests fail

[C. Titus Brown]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 05:50:31AM -0500, Kareem Janoudi wrote:
-> I emailed titus about this last week, believe he is still working on it. I
-> do think it is a bug within twill and possibly the reason could be that it
-> does not escape the string properly prior to using it in a regex find. if
-> you test for a user whose username is: "username=')", it will print
-> correctly on the /auth/print, and it will set the cookie correctly, but
-> twill cannot search for it using "find" because it transforms the string
-> given to a regular expression, which includes unescaped characters, such as
-> ). The error given is: error: unbalanced parenthesis in this particular
-> case.

Hi Kareem,

you can do

	find "username containing \( or \)"

if you want to match

	username containing ( or )

You are correct that this is a bug in twill.  Sigh.

cheers,
--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu