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<pre>Pythonistas,</pre>
<pre>I am an experienced Perl programmer just beginning to look at Python as I need a scripting langusge for a large project which involves a wide range of technologies. I know from bitter experience that Perl quickly becomes unwieldly as project size and complexity increases.</pre>
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<pre>I am impressed by Python, and in evaluating its suitability for the project at hand have found extensions to cover all areas of need but one: Automation of Submission of Web based Forms.</pre>
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<pre>I am probably missing something, but cannot find support for escaping of responses (as per Perl's URI::Escape::uri_escape), support for Forms processing (GET and POST methods as per Perl's LWP::Simple and LWP::UserAgent modules respectively) or any support for capture and use of Cookies.</pre>
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<pre>At first view Python seems very good in the Web Server department, but not so good in the Web Client area. I think I must be missing something, as I would have expected all this functionality to be written as part of the Grail project.</pre>
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<pre>Please tell me I've got it wrong!</pre>
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Regards,
John Bell
<jbell@iinet.net.au></pre>
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