Webbrowser On Windows

[J Correia]

"M.E.Farmer" <mefjr75 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1115010604.189459.146210 at o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> I played around with it.
>
############################################################################
> import pythoncom
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
>
############################################################################
> def webbrowser(url=None):
>     ie = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance("InternetExplorer.Application",
> None,
>                      pythoncom.CLSCTX_SERVER,
>                      pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
>     ie = Dispatch(ie)
>     ie.Navigate
>     if url:
>         ie.Navigate(url)
>     ie.Visible = 1
>     return ie
>
############################################################################
#
> import time
> w = webbrowser()
> w.Navigate('http://www.google.com')
> time.sleep(2)
> w.Navigate('http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general')
> time.sleep(2)
>
webbrowser('http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python?hl=en&lr=')
> webbrowser('http://python.org')
>
############################################################################
#
> M.E.Farmer
>

Noticed your sleep statements... because the response times vary from site
to site you might want to use this code:

while w.ReadyState != 4:       # 4 signals browser has finished loading and
is ready... 0=uninitialised; 1=loading; 2=loaded; 3=interactive; 4=complete
    time.sleep(1)

While we're on that subject... if you go further and expose the Document
object to work with the contents of the browser, for example...

doc = w.Document

then you also need to check for document readiness before continuing
processing as follows...

while w.ReadyState != 4 and doc.readyState != "complete":
        time.sleep(1)

Useful links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/browser/webbrowser/reference/ifaces/IWebBrowser2/IWebBrowser2.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/obj_document.asp

HTH,