When to use mechanize and Windmill library during WebScraping ?

[Raji Seetharaman]

Hi

For 'Webscraping with Python' mechanize or urllib2 and windmill or selenium
libraries are used  to download the webpages.

http://www.packtpub.com/article/web-scraping-with-python

The above link makes use of mechanize library to download the web pages.

The below link uses windmill library to download the web pages.

http://www.packtpub.com/article/web-scraping-with-python-part-2

I dont know when to use mechanize or windmill library

It has been said that Windmill library is used when the HTML file is auto
generated by the JavaScript code.

Also i dont know how to identify whether the HTML file is auto generated by
the JavaScript code or not ?

Suggest me

Thanks

Raji. S
http://sraji.wordpress.com/
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