ANN: mechanize 0.0.2a released

[John J. Lee]

http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/

This is an alpha release.

Changes since 0.0.1a:

 * Updated broken example code.
 * Fixed and added a test for UserAgent, which was pretty broken.
 * Fixed a bug in link parsing.
 * Added and improved docstrings.
 * Attribute lookups are no longer forwarded to .response -- you have
   to do it explicitly.
 * Added .geturl() method, which just delegates to .response.
 * Browser.form is now a public attribute.  Also documented Browser's
   public attributes.
 * Added base_url and absolute_url attributes to Link.
 * Tidied up .open().  Relative URL Request objects are no longer
   converted to absolute URLs -- they should probably be absolute in
   the first place anyway.
 * Added proper Referer handling (the handler in ClientCookie is a
   hack that only covers a restricted case).
 * Added click_link method, for symmetry with .click() / .submit()
   methods (which latter apply to forms).  Of these methods,
   .click/.click_link() returns a request, and .submit/ .follow_link()
   actually .open()s the request.


Requires Python 2.2, ClientCookie >= 0.4.12 (note version!), ClientForm
0.1.x and pullparser >= 0.2.b.

Stateful programmatic web browsing, after Andy Lester's Perl module
WWW::Mechanize.

Example:

import re
from mechanize import Browser

b = Browser()
b.open("http://www.example.com/")
response = b.follow_link(text_regex=re.compile(r"cheese\s*shop"), nr=1)

b.select_form(name="order")
b["cheeses"] = ["mozzarella", "caerphilly"]
response2 = b.submit()

response3 = b.back()  # back to cheese shop
response4 = b.reload()

for link in b.forms():
    print form
for link in b.links(url_regex=re.compile("python.org")):
    print link


John