On Nov 10, 10:23 am, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a requirement to control a firefox web browser from an external > python program. The python program running under linux from a command > shell needs to first find all open firefox web browser windows read > the URL currently displayed in each web browser and if the URL matches > a particular regular expression it needs to get/set form fields > displayed in the web browser. Basically I need something like Windows > COM and Internet Explorer where you can use COM to get/set form > elements in the web page as well as post the web page. Does xpcom > provide this? Is there some other method? Mozilla has an xpcom > interface but I am not sure it is available to a python program > running in a different process as my scenario describes. At some > point I will need this python program to run under Mac OS X but for > now I need something running under Linux.
There is some old xpcom bindings, but I don't think they were very helpful. You might be able to use mechanize: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mechanize/0.1.7b Or you might want to check out IronPython's Silverlight/Moonlight API. I don't think that's quite done for Linux, but it's getting there and when it's done, it might work for you... Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list