Ok, but do I worry about fixing that by installing a newer mechanize (or is that even possible without breaking twill?) Or do I just accept errors like that as a fact of life?
> Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 22:47:03 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [twill] Using twill's builtin mechanize distribution throws > AttributeError on _debug? > > That line hasn't been there in mechanize since 2008 -- back then it knew > much more about Python than it does now. I'd guess that code worked with > versions of Python that had been released at that time. Now it's based on > a fork of urllib2, so is less fragile to changes in Python. > > I guess neither of us (me nor Titus) spend much time on this stuff these > days. Certainly mechanize is not dead but certainly resting pretty hard > -- but still, it's seen a fair amount of change since 2008. Speaking for > myself more than Titus of course... > > > John > > On Sun, 4 Sep 2011, Stephen McInerney wrote: > > > > > Hi Titus, > > > > Can you look at that stacktrace though? > > mechanize attempted to call robotparser._debug() which dos not exist (on > > this version anyway) > > Is mechanize normally that flaky? > > I guess I could kludge a dummy robotparser._debug(), but that seems bad. > > > > Thanks, > > Stephen > > > > > >> Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:40:01 -0700 > >> From: [email protected] > >> To: [email protected] > >> CC: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [twill] Using twill's builtin mechanize distribution throws > >> AttributeError on _debug? > >> > >> Hi Stephen, > >> > >> twill's built-in mechanize is rather old and out of date. There should > >> be little or no internal state kept by twill itself; it's a really thin > >> wrapper around mechanize. So you should be able to use it w/o any > >> problem. > >> > >> cheers, > >> --titus > >> > >> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 12:45:38PM -0700, Stephen McInerney wrote: > >>> > >>> twill experts, > >>> > >>> I also posted this on StackOverflow, if you like to reply there: > >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7278103/using-twills-builtin-mechanize-distribution-throws-attributeerror-on-debug > >>> > >>> Using twill's builtin mechanize distribution throws AttributeError on > >>> _debug? > >>> > >>> I use twill (0.9) and I want to also access its builtin mechanize > >>> distribution (on Python 2.6.6). > >>> I read all the documentation and I'm not clear whether they even support > >>> or recommend that, if so they certainly don't publicize it (you might > >>> like to document that). > >>> It seems you can do: > >>> > >>> import _mechanize_dist as mechanize > >>> br = mechanize.Browser() > >>> br.open('http://www.yahoo.com') > >>> > >>> however mechanize throws the stupid AttributeError below on > >>> `robotparser._debug`. Should I not be trying to use it? or is it a > >>> 2.5/2.6 incompatibility? > >>> (Twill itself works fine: `twill.commands.go('http://www.yahoo.com')`) > >>> > >>> Traceback (most recent call last): > >>> File "<pyshell#19>", line 1, in <module> > >>> br.open('http://www.yahoo.com') > >>> File > >>> "C:\Dev\Python26\lib\site-packages\twill-0.9-py2.6.egg\twill\other_packages\_mechanize_dist\_mechanize.py", > >>> line 212, in open > >>> return self._mech_open(url, data) > >>> File > >>> "C:\Dev\Python26\lib\site-packages\twill-0.9-py2.6.egg\twill\other_packages\_mechanize_dist\_mechanize.py", > >>> line 238, in _mech_open > >>> response = UserAgentBase.open(self, request, data) > >>> File > >>> "C:\Dev\Python26\lib\site-packages\twill-0.9-py2.6.egg\twill\other_packages\_mechanize_dist\_opener.py", > >>> line 175, in open > >>> req = meth(req) > >>> File > >>> "C:\Dev\Python26\lib\site-packages\twill-0.9-py2.6.egg\twill\other_packages\_mechanize_dist\_http.py", > >>> line 440, in http_request > >>> self.rfp.read() > >>> File > >>> "C:\Dev\Python26\lib\site-packages\twill-0.9-py2.6.egg\twill\other_packages\_mechanize_dist\_http.py", > >>> line 387, in read > >>> robotparser._debug("parse lines") > >>> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '_debug' > >>> > >>> (Last question is: I'm not aware of any caveats about using both twill > >>> and mechanize commands side-by-side?) > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Stephen > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> twill mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/twill > >> > >> > >> -- > >> C. Titus Brown, [email protected] > >
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