On Sep 12, 2006, at 11:06 PM, L. Daniel Burr wrote:

My experience has been the same; I've used twisted.web.client for years now, in production applications, with no issues. That said, the original poster didn't mention any special requirements that forced him to go with mechanize; rather, the choice appears to have been made on the basis of activity.

That said, there *is* a web2-based client, available from OSAF, named zanshin. I haven't used it, but it is most certainly being actively developed

Sorry, I wrote this while rather tired. Let me clarify.

I know that twisted.web 1.0 is stable and production proven. And I know people are happy with it and love it.

Right now I have a bunch of existing scripts that crunch analytics and are already built on mechanize and run as cronjobs. I'm transitioning some to a job queue system , trying to optimize some resources by handling it all within twisted. My winwin situation on choosing mechanize is in part , because a) it involves copy-pasting a few lines and reusing classes I already have -- hopefully wrapping it into the event loop -- vs porting a bunch of stuff to twisted.web.client1 and b) its actively maintained, which means i get some random new features on their development list that I need already ( like integrated beautful soup support ). most that stuff is trivial and easily implemented in twisted, but i don't have to do that work. its done (in mechanize ).

So I'd like to stay within mechanize. and I think i've got a way to wrap it into twisted.

Thanks for the suggestions and trying to put me on the right track.