RELEASE: ClientForm 0.0.7
John J Lee
jjl@pobox.com
Sun, 23 Mar 2003 13:08:38 +0000
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/
Changes since 0.0.5:
* Empty TEXTAREA case fixed.
* Exception is no longer raised for INPUT TYPE=FILE -- instead, FILE
controls are just ignored (they will be handled properly in 0.1.x).
* Documentation improvements to web page (note that the web page is
more up to date than the copy of same in the package -- sorry).
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"))
first_form = forms[0]
form["author"] = "Gisle Aas"
# form.click returns a urllib2.Request object
# (use the items argument to this method if you're not using urllib2)
response = urlopen(form.click("Thanks"))
John