[twill] BeautifulSoup conflicts

[twill.overbored at spamgourmet.com]

Never mind. The problem is still there.

Upon closer inspection, Python is using the wrong BeautifulSoup! If
you look at the exception's line numbers, some are far beyond the
total line count in the BeautifulSoup included with twill. Instead,
this stack trace matches up with the BeautifulSoup 3.x I have
installed elsewhere. The thing that threw me off was the fact that
Python was printing the wrong path in the exceptions! (It's showing
the one that came with twill.)

There's almost certainly a way to have the two coexist (maybe I can
specify a BeautifulSoup version number from within mechanize and
ClientForm).

On 8/5/06, I wrote:
> I just tried with twill 0.8.5 (BeautifulSoup still at 3.0.3) and this
> is no longer a problem. Did someone fix it? (Thanks!)
>
> On 7/3/06, I wrote:
> > The program (/tmp/zxcv):
> >
> > import BeautifulSoup
> > import twill.commands
> > twill.commands.go('http://youtube.com/')
> > twill.commands.follow( 'Log In' )
> >
> > The output and exception:
> >
> > ==> at http://youtube.com/
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/tmp/zxcv", line 6, in ?
> >     twill.commands.follow( 'Log In' )
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/commands.py",
> > line 180, in follow
> >     link = browser.find_link(regexp)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/browser.py",
> > line 181, in find_link
> >     l = self._browser.find_link(url_regex=pattern)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/other_packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py",
> > line 431, in find_link
> >     return _find_links(self._factory.links(), True, **kwds)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/utils.py",
> > line 382, in links
> >     self._links = list(self._links)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/other_packages/mechanize/_html.py",
> > line 345, in links
> >     bs = self.link_parser_class(encoding, data)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/other_packages/mechanize/_html.py",
> > line 303, in __init__
> >     BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup.__init__(
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/other_packages/BeautifulSoup.py",
> > line 1326, in __init__
> >
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/other_packages/BeautifulSoup.py",
> > line 973, in __init__
> >
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/other_packages/BeautifulSoup.py",
> > line 987, in _feed
> >
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/other_packages/BeautifulSoup.py",
> > line 1580, in __init__
> >
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/other_packages/BeautifulSoup.py",
> > line 1614, in _convertFrom
> >
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/other_packages/BeautifulSoup.py",
> > line 1731, in find_codec
> >
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/twill-0.8.4-py2.4.egg/twill/other_packages/BeautifulSoup.py",
> > line 1740, in _codec
> >
> > TypeError: lookup() argument 1 must be string, not bool
> >
> > On 7/2/06, William K. Volkman - wkvsf at users.sourceforge.net
> > <>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 21:20, twill.overbored at spamgourmet.com wrote:
> > > > On 7/2/06, William K. Volkman - wkvsf at users.sourceforge.net
> > > > <>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 18:11, twill.overbored at spamgourmet.com wrote:
> > > > > > I'm trying to use both twill and BeautifulSoup. I downloaded the
> > > > > > latest BeautifulSoup (3.0.3) and have the following simple program:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
> > > > >
> > > > > I suspect you're stepping on twill's desire to use BeautifulSoup,
> > > > > the quick and dirty solution solution would be:
> > > > >
> > > > > from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as MySoup
> > > >
> > > > I had already tried this, but it still doesn't work; there's something
> > > > more intricate going on.
> > >
> > > OK.
> > >
> > > > The problem is that I'm trying to use code which seems to only work
> > > > with bsoup 3.x.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > from twill.commands import *
> > > > > > from twill.errors import *
> > > > > > from twill import *
> > > > > > from sys import *
> > > > > > go('http://youtube.com/')
> > > > > > follow( 'Log In' )
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This raises a hard-to-decipher exception. Once I remove the
> > > > > > BeautifulSoup improt, everything's fine. Should this be filed as a
> > > > > > twill bug? Any workarounds in the meantime? Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Well perhaps you could share the trace back from the hard-to-decipher
> > > exception?  (making it a little less hard to decipher :-D)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > William.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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