[twill] beautifulSoup via twill?

[Titus Brown]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:19:36PM -0700, Mike Gleeson wrote:
-> Mike Gleeson wrote:
-> > noob question - I'm not understanding how mechanize/beautifulSoup are 
-> > utilized within Twill.  I'm wanting to implement automated monitoring 
-> > and parsing thereof and am unable to piece it together using python 
-> > interactively.  I'm trying to find a div via a css identifier and parse 
-> > out the inner html.  Should be straightforward but I don't see it.
-> >
-> > appreciate any help, thank you.
-> >
-> > - mike
-> >
-> >   
-> here's how far I can get, I'm hoping there's a preferred way to utilize 
-> mechanize and beautifulsoup:
-> 
-> from twill import *
-> from mechanize import _beautifulsoup
-> soup = _beautifulsoup.BeautifulSoup
-> b = get_browser()
-> b.go('http://somedomain.com')
-> x = soup(b.get_html()) 
-> y = x.fetch('div')
-> // and parse from there
-> 
-> comments, suggestions?

Hey Mike,

this is about what you have to do, yes.  It seems like a good idea to
make a standardized API for it, though; do you have any thoughts on what
that should be?

Perhaps:

import twill
...
soup = twill.get_soup()

is simple enough?

--titus