How can i find the form name without "nr=0"

[John J. Lee]

alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 6, 8:56 am, scripteaze <scripte... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it possible then to have a form with no name and if so, how can i
>> access this form
>
> Hey scripteaze,
>
> I'm not sure about mechanize, but you might have more success using
> another one of the author's modules, ClientForm: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/
>
> from urllib2 import urlopen
> from ClientForm import ParseResponse
>
> response = urlopen("http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientForm/
> example.html")
> forms = ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)
> form = forms[0]
>
> As it returns a list of forms, you don't need to have a name to access
> it.

mechanize forms are ClientForm forms.

Quoting from mechanize.Browser.select_form().__doc__:

"""
        Another way to select a form is to assign to the .form attribute.  The
        form assigned should be one of the objects returned by the .forms()
        method.
"""

forms = list(br.forms())
br.form = pick_a_form(forms, br.global_form())


The "global form" (couldn't think of a better term) consists of all
form controls not contained in any FORM element.


John