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I've tried searching the Internet for something that might do what I want, but I don't think I'm using the right search terms. I'm sure something like this must exist.
My use case is this: I have a debit card, which spends money from my account directly. I usually try to keep this account manually at a certain balance, which means I have to log in to the bank website every few days and transfer money from my savings account into the debit account. Since it's always the same procedure - log in, read balance, transfer money to take balance back to threshold - I thought there surely must be some way to automate this. Every time I've tried to do something in Python, I've found a library for it :P so I figured it must be possible.
So, my question: Does there exist any way to use Python (or any language I suppose) to virtually view a web page as though it was in Firefox, and to then interact with that web page? I'd need to be able to do some sort of string searching I suppose, in order to find the required fields and buttons. It will be for a bank website, so I can't just load a HTML file statically and scan through it, it has to pretend it is an actual web browser (at least I imagine it would).
Look for module Selenium - doc: http://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/
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I have a relatively large test code base which I will migrate from nose to py.test. I would also like to take advantage of py.tests 'bare assert' functionality so that I'd need to make a lot of the following changes (for example):
self.assertEquals(a, b)
->
assert a == b
The code base is in practice too large for me to consider doing this by hand. With some git and sed magic I can get rid of about half of the self.asserts, but that still leaves me with an awful lot to do and the script is already getting somewhat complex.
It occurred to me that I'm probably not the first person to have done this. So: have any nice scripts to do this kind of thing? Or know of any nice tool that can programmatically refactor python (note: I'm aware of python-rope but to be honest at a glance that didn't seem particularly convenient)
You could use py.convert_unittest from the pycmd package for transforming the self.assert* alternatively. It doesn't deal with rewriting the inheritance, though.
Not sure it makes sense but you might also checkout the related pycmd hg repository and tweak the script, possibly submitting pull requests. If you like, i'd help factoring out the script into a new repo (also on github, if you prefer) and then advertise it so people with the same problem can start sharing efforts. As i am not using unittest myself for a longer time (surprise!) i don't have interest to drive this effort but i am willing to help along.
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I am building a python script to run nightly, part of which involves invoking a drupal bulk operation to export an XML file. Since the process takes a number of hours, and the next step is to automatically import it to another source, I would like to perform some level of integrity checking.
My first thought would be to simply make sure that the XML is not malformed. I don't particularly want to start inspecting the data, I just want to make sure it's not truncated.
What process might I use to perform this malformed check. Is there an applicable XML library built into Python? I would prefer to keep the script as portable as possible, so if possible a built-in solution would be the most preferable.
Thanks for any advice.
If you want use python, you can consider using element tree
Load your .xml and try to parse. Any Exception means XML is malformed.
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I'd like to have a utility running to periodically check our websites to make sure they're up and responding. Python is my preferred quick utility environment.
I know I can ping the server with urllib2 or something, but I really want to test that all the resources are there and available as well (CSS, JS, images, etc). Something like what a browser does when it loads a page -- fetch the HTML, then fetch the resources required, and check for any 400 or 500 errors.
Is there some simple way to do this in Python? I could probably use regex to try to grab the resource URLs from the HTML, but I don't want to worry about whether I'm doing it wrong.
Is there a tool or trick that will do the hard work, or will I have to parse the HTML myself? Or am I going about this the wrong way?
For availability monitoring I'd recommend a 3rd party service like newrelic.com or site24x7.com.
If you want to roll your own (which isn't so hard if you have only basic needs) just use an HTML parser and iterate over the DOM to request your linked resources. Just don't use regexes.
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I'm currently supporting a Python web app with increasingly complicated user/role/permission management requirements. Currently, we are rolling our own user, groups, permissions, etc. code and supporting database.
I'd like to find something like ASP.NET membership that can help manage user authentication and authorization, rather than risk security issues in continuing to create an increasingly complicated custom solution. Are there any similar projects out there worth taking a look at?
If you are looking for off site user authentication you might want to consider openid. People have added openid support to cherrypy.
If you are looking for more user management type code. I guess it depends on exactally what you are doing but others have done user management before, why not leverage off them. Skeletonz is a CMS written on top of cherrypy. If you are not wed to cherrypy you might also want to consider Pinax. It's built on Django with the idea of reusing work others have done so you don't have to do it again.
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I'm writting a small python script notify me when certain condition met. I used smtplib which does the emailing for me, but I also want the script to call my cell phone as well.
I can't find a free library for phone callings. Does anyone know any?
Make the calls using Skype, and use the Skype4Py API.
If you want other suggestions, please specify how you want to make the call (modem? Some software bridge? What?).
Also, might I suggest that you send an SMS instead of placing a call? You can do that via Skype too, btw.
Twilio can make calls through their API. Pay as you go. Worked well for wakeup calls for me.
I've used Skype4Py very successfully. Keep in mind though it does require Skype to be installed and costs the standard rate for SkypeOut.