On Aug 3, 7:58 pm, SMERSH009 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a script that navigates pages and scrapes the HTML source of > the page. > in order to view the results I need I need python to "navigate to" > this Javascript link: > javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cpMain$pagerTop','4') This basically > translates into "go to page 4." > I read the posts on this group, and from what I understand, the > functionality I need is with simplejson? If so, what is the syntax i > would use to execute that Javascript? > Or am I completely off base with using simplejson altogether? > > Thanks for the help > -Sam
json is a specific way of formatting strings. If an application expects to receive a string as input and the string is supposed be formatted according to json, then you need to send the app a json formatted string. >From the brief description I just read of simplejson, it allows you to convert python objects to a string. What makes you think that simplejson has anything to do with executing javascript code? When html pages are sent to a browser, there is software in the browser that executes any javascript on the page. If you use python to download source code from a server, you are not loading anything in a browser, so no javascript executes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list