[Tn5250py-general] tn5250py for screen scraping/automation
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From: Tim M. <x...@Ve...> - 2003-10-31 17:18:31
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Anyone still on this list? (-: I've been looking for a solution to automate some access to an AS/400 program. At first I was looking at tn5250. Looking at it i stumbled across its python interface... but then learned this project was abandoned years ago. Having been excited at the possibilty of a python interface, however, i went looking for more python possibilities. I found that tn5250j has a nice looking jython interface... but it seems complicated to do what I want to do through a java swing app... Finally I found this little project, which also appears quite dead. I'd noticed it before actually, but when i saw the "planning stage" on the project summary page I didn't look much further. Lately I did look into the CVS repository though, and it appears there is quite a lot of working code there... it actually looks promising. I really don't know the technicalities of 5250, but I know python. I was just wondering if anyone felt like commenting on whether they think the tn5250 code (the vt5250.py module) is complete enough to do things like: - automated login - fill in fields (and submit them) - read fields (which may be updated when others are filled in) I was actually thinking of possibly building a server which would maintain a logged in connection to an AS/400 and accept tasks which would queue up and execute on the AS/400 sequentially by emulating user input and in some cases reading output screens (returning info as a report). It would be nice to have a pure python solution, which is easier to maintain and has fewer levels of complication. -- Tim Middleton | Cain Gang Ltd | But the trouble was that my hysterical fit x...@ve... | www.Vex.Net | could not go on for ever. --Dost (NFTU) |