[twill] Twill not finding input box on page

Jamal Mazrui Jamal.Mazrui at fcc.gov
Thu Nov 19 14:24:17 PST 2009


Thanks, Pawel!  Indeed, I discovered that I did not have tidy.exe on my Windows search path, and once I corrected that, the problem is resolved.

Jamal


-----Original Message-----
From: twill-bounces at lists.idyll.org [mailto:twill-bounces at lists.idyll.org] On Behalf Of Pawel Stradomski
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:51 PM
To: twill at lists.idyll.org
Subject: Re: [twill] Twill not finding input box on page

W liście Jamal Mazrui z dnia czwartek 19 listopada 2009:
> Thanks, Howard and Pawel, for your responses.
> 
> I tried changing the use_tidy setting, and then tried changing the 
> use_BeautifulSoup setting as well -- still no luck as per the session 
> below.

Well, in my case it doesn't work without tidy - perhaps you could double check it is in fact being used (require_tidy?)

Versions used:
$ twill-sh --version
twill version 0.9.
$ python --version
Python 2.5.4


 -= Welcome to twill! =-

current page:  *empty page*
>> config use_tidy

key use_tidy: value True

current page:  *empty page*
>> go http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/
==> at http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/
current page: http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/
>> showforms

Form #1
## ## __Name__________________ __Type___ __ID________ __Value__________________
1     url                      text      id_url       http://
2  1  None                     submit    submit       Evaluate
3     formid                   hidden    (None)       1250e69ae2d70ab3

current page: http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/
>> config use_tidy False
current page: http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/
>> reload
==> reloaded
current page: http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/
>> showforms

Form #1
## ## __Name__________________ __Type___ __ID________ __Value__________________
1  1  None                     submit    submit       Evaluate
2     formid                   hidden    (None)       1250e6a17cc43127

current page: http://fae.cita.illinois.edu/
>> config use_BeautifulSoup

key use_BeautifulSoup: value True


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Paweł Stradomski

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