ANN: twill 0.9b1 released
Titus Brown
titus at caltech.edu
Wed Mar 7 00:01:25 CET 2007
ANNOUNCING twill v0.9b1.
twill is a simple language for browsing the Web. It's designed for
automated testing of Web sites, but it can be used to interact with
Web sites in a variety of ways. In particular, twill supports form
submission, cookies, redirects, and HTTP authentication.
This release of twill is officially "Pretty Dang Stable".
A twill script to use the "I'm feeling lucky" button on Google looks
like this:
setlocal query "twill Python"
go http://www.google.com/
fv 1 q $query
submit btnI # use the "I'm feeling lucky" button
show
(Note that using this script abuses Google's Terms of Service. So don't.)
You can install the latest release of twill with easy_install,
easy_install twill
or download this release at
http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-0.9b1.tar.gz
Documentation is included in the .tar.gz and is also online at
http://twill.idyll.org/
Miscellaneous details:
twill is implemented in Python and uses pyparsing and mechanize. In
addition to the existing simple command language, twill can easily be
extended with Python. twill also provides a fairly simple and
well-documented wrapper around mechanize.
twill does not understand JavaScript, I'm sorry to say.
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Significant changes with 0.9b1
* Switched to MIT license.
* twill tests now work under Windows and cygwin (switch to subprocess).
Fixed a variety of Windows-specific bugs in the process ;).
* Complete integration with latest mechanize, including global form
access.
* Added Seo Sanghyeon's patch to enable form element TAB completion on
'formvalue' command.
* twill-sh now gathers scripts from subdirectories.
* Added paste.lint test into wsgi_intercept test code.
* Cleared up confusing test output when test server didn't run.
* Started using the BeautifulSoup code included with mechanize.
* Added TWILL_TEST_PORT for running tests on something other than port 8080.
* Added Andy Chamber's patch to the formfill extension module.
* Fixed DNS tests to be reliant on name records I control.
* Removed ClientCookie dependencies.
* Defended my PhD.
* Added newline '\n' processing in arguments.
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