[twill] twill pyparsing error...

[Titus Brown]

(Re Matt's blog at

	http://panela.blog-city.com/generate_twill_scripts_and_mechanize_unittests_from_testgen4.htm
)

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:03:44PM -0800, Matt Harrison wrote:
-> First of all I want to say thank you for creating twill.  It's a very cool
-> tool.

Glad to hear it!

-> Also, thanks for your comment on my blog.  The "& was unexpected" is
-> reproducible using yesterday's easyinstall of twill.
-> Here's a script that causes it:
-> 
-> #script generated by Twillify
-> debug commands 1
-> go http://www.google.co.in/
-> title "Google"
-> formvalue f q "twill python"
-> #doing click action , need to set formvalue first, so it will get clicked
-> formvalue f btnG "Google Search"
-> submit
-> title "twill python - Google Search"
-> follow "twill: a simple language for testing Web applications"
-> title "twill: a simple language for testing Web applications"
-> find "twill: a simple language for testing Web applications"
-> #end script
-> 
-> Here's the output of the script:
-> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\matt\twill-0.8>python
-> twill-sh .
-> .\out.twill
-> >> EXECUTING FILE ..\out.twill
-> twill: executing cmd 'go http://www.google.co.in/'
-> ==> at http://www.google.co.in/
-> twill: executing cmd 'title "Google"'
-> >& was unexpected at this time.
-> twill: executing cmd 'formvalue f q "twill python"'
-> >& was unexpected at this time.
-> twill: executing cmd 'formvalue f btnG "Google Search"'
-> control is read-only; nothing done.
-> twill: executing cmd 'submit'
-> Note: submit is using submit button: name="btnG", value="Google Search"
-> twill: executing cmd 'title "twill python - Google Search"'
-> >& was unexpected at this time.
-> twill: executing cmd 'follow "twill: a simple language for testing Web
-> applicati
-> ons"'
-> >& was unexpected at this time.
-> >& was unexpected at this time.
-> ==> at http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/twill.html
-> twill: executing cmd 'title "twill: a simple language for testing Web
-> applicatio
-> ns"'
-> >& was unexpected at this time.
-> twill: executing cmd 'find "twill: a simple language for testing Web
-> application
-> s"'
-> --
-> 1 of 1 files SUCCEEDED.
-> 
-> How do you want me to proceed with this "bug"?  Is there a mailing list I
-> should be using instead?  (Couldn't find one on the website)

There is a list at twill at lists.idyll.org -- I CCed it on this e-mail.
You can subscribe at http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/twill if you want,
or just post to it once & I'll OK you for future unsubscribed postings.

I'm a bit mystified by this ">& was unexpected at this time".  I can't
reproduce it on my development machine, and it "was unexpected" doesn't
appear in any of the twill source files.  My guess at this point is that
it's related to the version of sgmllib or htmllib or HTMLParser that
you've got installed.  What version of Python are you using?

thanks,
--titus