On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Yingjie Lin <yingjie....@mssm.edu> wrote: > Hi Python users, > > I have a question about the instance of closeable_response in module > Mechanize. > > from mechanize import ParseResponse, urlopen > url = "http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/example.html"; > r = urlopen(url) > forms = ParseResponse(r, backwards_compat=False) > html_lines = r.read() > > If I call ParseResponse() before r.read(), then lforms would be a list > containing one form > instance, and html_lines would be an empty string. If I call r.read() first, > then html_lines > would be the HTML source code of the page, but forms would be an empty list. > > Therefore, I have to open the url twice, once for each function, like this: > > r = urlopen(url) > forms = ParseResponse(r, backwards_compat=False) > r = urlopen(url) > html_lines = r.read() > > I believe this shouldn't be necessary. What is the proper way of doing it? > Thank you.
Untested speculation: from StringIO import StringIO r = urlopen(url) html = r.read() s = StringIO(html) forms = ParseResponse(s, backwards_compat=False) Cheers, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
