ANN: ClientForm 0.0.10 and 0.1.3a released

[John J. Lee]

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/

A new stable and development release.

Changes from 0.0.9 to 0.0.10:

 * Changed license from MIT to BSD, to make it easier to use other code.
   The only difference is the addition of a non-endorsement clause.
 * Default value for single-selection SELECT controls was wrong.
   Before, nothing was selected if select_default argument to
   ParseResponse / ParseFile was False (the default).  Now, the first
   item is selected, as documented.  Thanks to Chris Curvey.
 * Fixed exceptions raised by HTMLForm.__getitem__ / .__setitem__
   and SelectControl.toggle_by_label.
 * RadioControl now has default value "on" -- same as for
   CheckboxControl.  Both IE5 and Mozilla Firebird 0.6 do this.
 * CHECKBOX and multiple SELECT controls now allow
   control.value = None, for consistency.
 * Parse errors may now be ignored, thanks to ignore_errors
   argument to ParseFile and ParseResponse.
 * Other minor changes.

Changes from 0.1.2a to 0.1.3a:

 * Equivalent changes to those listed above.
 * Added HTMLForm.set and HTMLForm.clear methods (and corresponding
   control methods).  Useful!
 * A minor 2.3 compatibility fix.

Note that there will be a couple more interface changes before a 0.1.x
beta release (the only important planned change relates to the
disabled attribute).  Multi-file upload is still not implemented.


Requires Python >= 1.5.2.

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 has developed from a port of Gisle
Aas' Perl module HTML::Form, from the libwww-perl library, but the
interface is not the same.

Simple example:

 from urllib2 import urlopen
 from ClientForm import ParseResponse

 forms = ParseResponse(urlopen("http://www.acme.com/form.html"))
 form = forms[0]
 print form
 form["author"] = "Gisle Aas"

 # form.click returns a urllib2.Request object
 # (see HTMLForm.click.__doc__ if you don't have urllib2)
 response = urlopen(form.click("Thanks"))


John