ANNOUNCING twill v0.7.1. twill is a simple Web scripting language built on top of Python and John J. Lee's 'mechanize'. It's designed for automated testing of Web sites, but it should prove useful for anybody who needs to interact with Web sites (especially those using logins and cookies) on the command line or via a script. twill is a reimplementation of Cory Dodt's PBP. A twill script looks like this: # go to the /. login page go http://slashdot.org/login.pl # fill in the form fv 1 unickname test fv 1 upasswd test submit # ok, there's no such account ;). show error HTML. show --- This is the second public release of twill, version 0.7.1. (Tagline: "Most of the obvious bugs have been fixed.") I'm still looking for general feedback on usability, as well as suggestions on additional use cases. Download directly here: http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-0.7.1.tar.gz Documentation is online at http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/twill.html --- Miscellaneous details: twill is implemented in Python and uses pyparsing and mechanize. In addition to the existing simple command language, twill can easily be extended with Python. twill also provides a fairly simple and well-documented wrapper around mechanize. twill scripts can be recorded with maxq, although scripts may require some hand tweaking at the moment. See the twill documentation for more information. twill does not understand JavaScript, I'm sorry to say. --- Notable bug fixes and features: * file upload & HTTP basic authentication; * submit w/o submit buttons now works; * better error reporting; * 'quiet', 'interact after scripts', and 'fail-immediately' command-line options. * '-' <== stdin on command line.