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Asked: 2026-05-29T23:40:49+00:00

I’m having a really hard time finding a good comprehensive source for Mechanize’s documentation.

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I’m having a really hard time finding a good comprehensive source for Mechanize’s documentation. Even the main documentation on mechanize’s site isn’t really that great: it only seems to list examples.

Is there a more formal place for documentation where I can see lists of classes and methods for this module? I’m a bit new to python, so maybe there’s a simple answer for this.

More specifically I need a good source of information for mechanize.Browser(), which I’ve only been able to find information on through random questions on Stack Overflow.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you’re not happy with mechanize’s site, then I’m afraid the best you can do is look at the examples you’ve found or at the code from the library ifself.

    Regarding mechanize.Browser if you take a look at the code, then you’ll see:

    class Browser(UserAgentBase):
class UserAgentBase(_opener.OpenerDirector):
class OpenerDirector(urllib2.OpenerDirector):

    So, for starters, you can assume that a mechanize.Browser object is just a specialized urllib2.OpenerDirector.

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