[CentralOH] Help for a newbie......

[Kurtis Mullins]

I'm also not completely sure what you're trying to acheive. My first
intuition is you want http://<hostname>:5555/dosomething to be served by
Python, in which case the Python script/web-app will allow users to execute
commands on the server. If that's the case, I recommend being very cautious
for security purposes.

If this is what you're seeking to do, please elaborate on which issues you
are having when calling commands and I'd be glad to help out.

Good luck!
- Kurtis


On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Brian Costlow <brian.costlow at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> Welcome!
>
> First, I'm not sure I completely understand the question you are asking.
>
> Do you want your python program itself to connect to that URL, and display
> the okay dialog?
>
> Or are you trying to use Python to script a browser (Firefox, Chrome, IE)
> so the browser connects to the URL and hits okay on a dialog displayed in
> the browser?
>
> If the latter, I suggest you look into a web test application, like
> selenium. You can script it in Python (or a number of other languages) and
> use it to automate browsers.
>
> http://docs.seleniumhq.org/
>
> If the former, you'll need to work out how to connect to the URL and get
> data. I suggest looking into the Requests library.
>
> http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
>
> Then you'll need to work on a GUI. There are a number of possible choices,
> though PyQt and TkInter seem to get talked about the most.
>
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming
>
> Trying to give this level of help on the mailing list is tough. You might
> want to bring your code to a dojo for help. Or get started and ask a more
> specific question.
>
> You can go here to find dojos, the next one is this Friday.
> http://cohpy.org
>
> --Brian
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Richard.C.1 at bwc.state.oh.us <
> Richard.C.1 at bwc.state.oh.us> wrote:
>
>>  First, I’m a real newbie to Python – and I mean a real newbie…  I’m
>> still going
>>
>> through a tutorial on it so I think I don’t know what I don’t know…. and
>> right
>>
>> now I think I’m getting a bit swamped by what seem to be the bunch of ways
>>
>> I might be able to do something….. and what would help is a short example
>> or
>>
>> description of the command/call (s?) that I need to use. Briefly, what I
>> want to
>>
>> be able to do is to execute an internal browser command that will run a
>> shortcut
>>
>> on our internal web that looks like this:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://<hostname>:5555/dosomething
>>
>>
>>
>> This will call a server which after a few seconds will show an “OK” box
>> on the
>>
>> screen to which I want to “pipe” an “enter” command.  There’s a lot more
>> to
>>
>> the whole thing, but if I can get an example of what commands/calls/?? I
>> would
>>
>> need to use to do those two actions that would get me started. Thank you
>> very
>>
>> much for any help/suggestions/references/thoughts you may feel like
>> sharing!
>>
>>
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