[twill] BeautifulSoup conflicts

[William K. Volkman]

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.