"Fuzzyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The standard library module for fetching HTML is urllib2.

Does urllib2 replace everything in urllib? I thought there was some
urllib functionality that urllib2 didn't do.

> There is a project called mechanize, built by John Lee on top of
> urllib2 and other standard modules.
> It will emulate a browsers behaviour - including history, cookies,
> basic authentication, etc.

urllib2 handles cookies and authentication. I use those features
daily. I'm not sure history would apply, unless you're also handling
javascript. Is there some other way to ask the browser to go back in
history?

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