best set of modules for web automation without javascript

[Paul Rubin]

News123 <news123 at free.fr> writes:
> I would just like to retrieve all the field names and default values of
> a form. (Some forms are huge) and wondered thus whether there's already
> a python module parsing a html documents for forms , form fields and
> field vaules, returning an objcet. that could be modified and posted.

BeautifulSoup may be of some help.