From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2008-09-09T23:53:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help translating Ruby code

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On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Kevin Tran <hekevintran@berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Hi I am new to Ruby from Python and am still learning some stuff.  I
> have a Ruby program that uses the mechanize library to connect to a Web
> site and authenticate with a username and password.  The issue I have is
> that I need to get this code translated into Python.  The Python
> mechanize library is not very well documented and I was wondering if
> anyone here had any experience using this library in Ruby or Python.
> Basically the only tricky part of this program is that it needs to add a
> field to the form on the page.  This extra field, "__EVENTTARGET", needs
> to be added explicitly.  I cannot find the Python equivalent to the
> WWW::Mechanize::Form::Field.new(nil,nil) method.  Thank you in advance.
> I hope I explained myself well.
>
>
>
>
> [code]
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'mechanize'
>
> Hpricot.buffer_size = 262144
>
> auth = {
>  :username => "bugmenot2008@yahoo.com",
>  :password => "letmeinalready"
> }
>
> login_url = "http://www.princetonreview.com/Login3.aspx?uidbadge=" # !>
> `&' interpreted as argument prefix
> agent  = WWW::Mechanize.new
> page = agent.get( login_url )
> my_form = page.forms.first
>
> my_form['ctl00$MasterMainBodyContent$txtUsername']= auth[:username]
> my_form['ctl00$MasterMainBodyContent$txtPassword']= auth[:password]
>
>
> target_field = WWW::Mechanize::Form::Field.new(nil,nil)
> target_field.name = "__EVENTTARGET"
> target_field.value  = "ctl00$MasterMainBodyContent$btnLogin"
> my_form.fields << target_field
>
> new_page = my_form.submit
>
> # examine output to make sure it worked
> new_page = agent.get("http://www.princetonreview.com/YourStuff.aspx")
>
> pp new_page
> [/code]
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
I think this would be a better question for a Python list as you want a
Python answer.

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