[titus@caltech.edu: Re: [twill] Named and unnamed forms problem and ugly workaround]
C. Titus Brown
X-Original-To: ti...@caltech.edu
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 19:32:28 -0800
From: Titus Brown <ti...@caltech.edu>
To: Renato Borges <renato....@gmail.com>
Cc: tw...@lists.idyll.org
Subject: Re: [twill] Named and unnamed forms problem and ugly workaround
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 05:37:41PM -0200, Renato Borges wrote:
-> Hello everyone!
->
-> First of all, I'd like to thank everyone involved with the twill project for
-> creating and maintaining a very useful tool!
->
-> To time-deprived readers, I'll explain it briefly:
->
-> My problem is that unnamed forms that sit on a page that have a named form
-> that has the unnamed form's number as part of its name cannot be accessed
-> through regular fv's. For instance, if form #1 is named "Form-123" then
-> unnamed forms #2 and #3 cannot be accessed by fv (2, , ) or fv ( "3", , )
-> because the numbers 2 and 3 and the strings "2" and "3" are matched to the
-> "Form-123" form.
->
-> I suppose that a pretty solution would be to subclass the twill browser and
-> add a matching process that prioritizes number matching. But I cannot do so
-> right now.
heh, good unintended consequence. Thanks for debugging this.
I would be inclined to favor number matching over regexp matching,
reversing the lookup priority, because of this problem. Would this
cause new problems for anyone?
cheers,
--titus
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