On Jun 9, 2008, at 8:51 AM, W W wrote:
Originally I was planning to use urllib to post/retrieve the data, but as far as I can tell, the bank uses several variables and some javascript to authenticate everything, and it seems overly complicated to try and manually figure it all out.
Raw urllib is a poor way to interact with web sites; it's too low level. Instead you might consider the libraries mechanize and twill. They are essentially web browsers in a library. They won't handle JavaScript, but they do let you retrieve, fill in, and send forms without worrying much about the details of the conversation. You might give them a try before completely giving up on the command line mechanisms. Alas controlling applications is very hard in Unix land and very easy in the Windows world. -jeff _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
