[twill] documentation mismatch?

[iain duncan]

On Wed, 2007-21-11 at 10:31 -0800, bruce wrote:
> len(list(showlinks()))

Thank Bruce, I knew about that trick ( I mentioned flattening the
generator ), I just thought the command reference of the docs should
correctly indicate what is returned ( Generator not list ), or it should
return an object implementing the remaining list interfaces ( len, [] ).
As it is, one of the first things I tried was to get the link object by
subscripting with [] and the length with len, and then had to go and
figure out in the shell why that didn't work. Minor inconvenience, but
still a less than optimal user experience that could be avoided by a
quick correction in the docs.

Thanks for the hard work Titus! I'm really looking forward to the growth
of Twill, it's great to have one tool I can use for simple automated
browsing with or without the test harness. =)

Iain


> 
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:54:14AM -0800, iain duncan wrote:
> > Hi all, just getting into Twill and I can see it will be great for
> > functional testing my TG apps.
> > 
> > I assume this is the place for bug reports and feature requests?
> > 
> > Something I found:
> > 
> > The command reference at
> > http://twill.idyll.org/commands.html
> > says that when called from python, showlinks and showforms return lists.
> > However, in my shell, they seem to be returning generators that won't
> > let me do:
> > 
> > len( showlinks() )
> > 
> > I think it would be handly to be able to count them, but of course I can
> > flatten the generator. However, thought I'd point out that doc mismatch
> > and it might be nice to avoid the explicit conversion to list.
> > 
> > 
> > BTW, thanks for the shortcuts book too!
> > Iain
> > 
> > 
> > 
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