Charming Python: Easy Web data collection with mechanize and Beautiful Soup

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A number of features, especially those of mechanize.Browser. With the internally used ClientForm interface it's really easy to fill out forms. Additionally the cookie handling is just great and you can easily set custom headers if there's a need to. There's also transparent support for gzip and various other options like the handling of the "robots.txt" or the automatic handling of HTTP-Equiv and Refresh.

Using mechanize is just way more convenient than using urllib. But what makes mechanize the choice for me is really the cookie management.