| Recent public API changes: |
| |
| - Since 0.1.2b beta release: Factory now takes EncodingFinder and |
| ResponseTypeFinder class instances instead of functions (since |
| closures don't play well with module pickle). |
| |
| - ClientCookie has been moved into the mechanize package and is no |
| longer a separate package. The ClientCookie interface is still |
| supported, but all names must be imported from module mechanize |
| instead of from module ClientCookie. Python 2.3 is now required. (I |
| have no plans to merge ClientForm with mechanize.) Note that the |
| logging work-alike facility is gone, and the base logger has been |
| renamed from "ClientCookie" to "mechanize". Also, the experimental |
| BSDDB support is now only included as example code, and not |
| installed, and the VERSION attribute has been removed (mechanize |
| still has its __version__ attribute). |
| |
| - pullparser has been moved into the mechanize package and is no |
| longer a separate package. Also, the interface of pullparser is no |
| longer supported. Instead, it's just a purely internal |
| implementation detail of mechanize. |
| |
| - Removed mechanize.Browser.set_seekable_responses() (they're always |
| seekable anyway). |
| |
| - Some mechanize.Browser constructor args have been moved to |
| mechanize.Factory (default_encoding, ...). |
| |
| - .get_links_iter() is gone (use .links() instead). |
| |
| - .forms() and .links() now both return iterators (in fact, generators), |
| not sequences (not really an interface change: these were always |
| documented to return iterables, but it will no doubt break some client |
| code). Use e.g. list(browser.forms()) if you want a list. |
| |
| - .links no longer raises LinkNotFoundError (was accidental -- only |
| .click_link() / .find_link() should raise this). |
| |
| - Rename set_credentials --> set_password_manager (and add some new |
| methods to improve auth and proxy support). |
| |
| - Added response.get_data() and .set_data() methods, and make responses |
| copy.copy()able. Browser has a .set_response() method. responses |
| returned by the Browser are now copies, which means that other code |
| altering headers and data and calling .seek() won't mess up your copy of |
| a response. |
| |
| - mechanize.Factory has changed completely, to make it easier to avoid |
| re-parsing (principally: add .set_response() method and make |
| factory methods take no args) |
| |
| - mechanize.Browser.default_encoding is gone. |
| |
| - mechanize.Browser.set_seekable_responses() is gone (they're always |
| .seek()able). Browser and UserAgent now both inherit from |
| mechanize.UserAgentBase, and UserAgent is now there only to add the |
| single method .set_seekable_responses(). |
| |
| - Added Browser.encoding(). |
| |
| - Factory() takes an i_want_broken_xhtml_support argument, as a stop |
| gap until I actually make a proper job of it. Without a true value |
| for that argument, mechanize is ignorant of XML/XHTML. |
| |
| - _authen handler name renamed --> _basicauth |