How Can I Start Using Twill?

I am sorry I have already asked this question on 'Superuser', but nobody answers there, so I deleted it from 'Superuser' and decided to post it here. Hope it's not a big crime, esp

Solution 1:

You cannot just double click setup.py

You need to open command prompt or shell and go to that folder

and need to do

python setup.py build
python setup.py install

install step should automatically do build normally, so only last one will work

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Edit: ok, here is superuser way of installation steps

1. I have extracted twill-0.9.tar.gz to D:\tmp\twill-0.9

2. I am on drive C, so I switched to D:

   C:\>d:

3. Now, change the folder by using cd command

   C:\>cd D:\tmp\twill-0.9

4. start the build process

   D:\tmp\twill-0.9>python setup.py build
   (WARNING: importing distutils, not setuptools!)
   D:\data\program\Python26\lib\distutils\dist.py:266: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'entry_points'
     warnings.warn(msg)
   D:\data\program\Python26\lib\distutils\dist.py:266: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'test_suite'
     warnings.warn(msg)
   running build
   running build_py
   creating build
   creating build\lib
   creating build\lib\twill
   ......
   running build_scripts
   creating build\scripts-2.6
   copying and adjusting twill-fork -> build\scripts-2.6

5. Install it

   D:\tmp\twill-0.9>python setup.py install
   (WARNING: importing distutils, not setuptools!)
   running install
   running build
   running build_py
   ......
   running install_scripts
   copying build\scripts-2.6\twill-fork -> D:\data\program\Python26\Scripts
   running install_egg_info
   Writing D:\data\program\Python26\Lib\site-packages\twill-0.9-py2.6.egg-info

6. Test for import is or not

   D:\tmp\twill-0.9>python
   Python 2.6.5 (r265:79096, Mar 19 2010, 21:48:26) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
   Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.  
   >>> import twill
     import re, base64, urlparse, posixpath, md5, sha, sys, copy
   twill\other_packages\_mechanize_dist\_auth.py:14: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
     import re, base64, urlparse, posixpath, md5, sha, sys, copy
   >>>

7. Import was fine, but there is DeprecationWarnings on python 2.6, but this should be ok and should be no warnings at all with python 2.5

8. confirm its properly imported or not, you will see twill and its functions there, so yes.

   >>> dir()
   ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', '__package__', 'twill']
   >>> from twill.commands import *
   >>> dir()
   ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', '__package__', 'add_auth', 'add_extra_header', 'agent', 'back', 'clear_cookies', 'clear_extra_headers', 'code', 'config', 'debug', 'echo', 'exit', 'extend_with', 'fa', 'find', 'follow
   >>>