Mechanize/Browser question

[Diez B. Roggisch]

bruce schrieb:
> hi...
> 
> i can do the following
>   br = Browser
>   br.open("www.yahoo.com")
>   br.open("file:///foo")
> 
>  but can i do
>   s = "..." <<<< qualified html text
>   br.open(s)
> 
>  i'm curious, if i have html from someother source, is there a way to simply
> get it into the "Browser" so i can modify it...

Use the tempfile-module to create a temporary file, write your HTML in 
there and point the browser to it. Alternatively, you could fire up a 
SimpleHTTPServer and serve the content. For HTML-only this would be 
overkill, but if you need images as well it might be worth it.


Diez