"james <at> hal-pc.org" wrote in
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> "james <at> hal-pc.org" wrote:
>> the entire 26 character string from site A, but [1] how do i
>> crop it to 10 characters.
> 
> [1] still at a loss on this one, but i can get to it later,
> unless you've got any ideas.

strings are slicable:

>>> s='a string of characters'
>>> s[:10]
'a string o'
>>> s[-10:]
'characters'
>>> 

As far as your other problem, it might make sense(I don't know...) to 
just generate the post request for saving the new password yourself 
and never bother with parsing/filling the form.

max
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