ANN: mechanize 0.0.7a released

[John J. Lee]

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

This is an alpha release.

Changes since 0.0.2a:

 * Fixed lots of bugs.
 * Link instances may now be passed to .click_link() and .follow_link().
 * Added a new example program, pypi.py.
 * ClientCookie 0.4.17 and pullparser 0.0.4b are now required (in fact,
   they always were, even though they didn't exist ;-).


Requires Python 2.2, ClientCookie >= 0.4.17 (note version!), ClientForm
0.1.x and pullparser >= 0.0.4b.

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/")
# follow second link with element text matching regular expression
response = b.follow_link(text_regex=re.compile(r"cheese\s*shop"), nr=1)

b.select_form(name="order")
# Browser passes through unknown attributes (including methods)
# to the selected HTMLForm (from ClientForm).
b["cheeses"] = ["mozzarella", "caerphilly"]  # (the method here is __setitem__)
response2 = b.submit()  # submit current form

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

for link in b.forms():
    print form
# .links() optionally accepts the keyword args of .follow_/.find_link()
for link in b.links(url_regex=re.compile("python.org")):
    print link
    b.follow_link(link)  # takes EITHER Link instance OR keyword args
    b.back()


John