1 Stateful programmatic web browsing, after Andy Lester's Perl module
4 The library is layered: mechanize.Browser (stateful web browser),
5 mechanize.UserAgent (configurable URL opener), plus urllib2 handlers.
7 Features include: ftp:, http: and file: URL schemes, browser history,
8 high-level hyperlink and HTML form support, HTTP cookies, HTTP-EQUIV
9 and Refresh, Referer [sic] header, robots.txt, redirections, proxies,
10 and Basic and Digest HTTP authentication. mechanize's response
11 objects are (lazily-) .seek()able and still work after .close().