[twill] BeautifulSoup conflicts

[twill.overbored@spamgourmet.com]

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.
>
>
>