Automating Form Submission

[John Bell]

Pythonistas,

I am an experienced Perl programmer just beginning to look at Python as I need a scripting langusge for a large project which involves a wide range of technologies.  I know from bitter experience that Perl quickly becomes unwieldly as project size and complexity increases.

I am impressed by Python, and in evaluating its suitability for the project at hand have found extensions to cover all areas of need but one: Automation of Submission of Web based Forms.

I am probably missing something, but cannot find support for escaping of responses (as per Perl's URI::Escape::uri_escape), support for Forms processing (GET and POST methods as per Perl's LWP::Simple and LWP::UserAgent modules respectively) or any support for capture and use of Cookies.

At first view Python seems very good in the Web Server department, but not so good in the Web Client area.  I think I must be missing something, as I would have expected all this functionality to be written as part of the Grail project.

Please tell me I've got it wrong!

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Regards,
John Bell


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