ClientForm -- HTML form handling

[John J. Lee]

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm

ClientForm 0.0.2a

WARNING: this is an alpha release.  The API may change, and don't
expect everything to work properly!

ClientForm is a Python module for handling HTML forms on the client
side, useful for parsing HTML forms, filling them in and returning the
completed forms to the server.  It is a port (more-or-less) of Gisle
Aas' Perl module HTML::Form, from the libwww-perl library.

 import ClientForm
 import urllib2
 request = urllib2.Request("http://www.acme.com/form.html")
 response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
 forms = ClientForm.ParseResponse(response)
 form = forms[0]
 form["author"] = "Gisle Aas"
 request2 = form.click("Thanks")
 response2 = urllib2.urlopen(request2)

 print result2.geturl()
 print result2.info()  # headers
 for line in result2.readlines():  # body
     print line

All of the standard input types are supported: TEXT, PASSWORD, FILE,
HIDDEN, BUTTON, RESET, IMAGE, SUBMIT, CHECKBOX, SELECT/OPTION and
RADIO.  TEXTAREA and FILE (for file upload) are not yet supported, but
will be in a future version.

Python 2.0 or above is required.  I will backport to 1.5.2 later.  To
run the tests, you need the unittest module (from PyUnit).


John