the 'mechanize' library

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the 'mechanize' library

28 Days Ago

I've been playing around with this library called 'mechanize' for automated form-filling ( http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/ ).

Now, I've tried this library across a number of websites, but although it works on some, on others I get an error saying -
mechanize._html.ParseError: ParseError(ParseError(SGMLParseError("unexpected char 'u' in internal subset",),),)

I also tried the offending websites with another similar librarty called ClientForm:

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from ClientForm import ParseResponse
from urllib2 import urlopen

response = urlopen("http://www.bairstoweves.co.uk/")
forms = ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)
form = forms[0]
print urlopen(form.click()).read()

-- same error

can anyone tell me what this error means and how I can fix it? as there is no proper documentation out there for these libraries besides the docstrings (not very helpful)

Last edited by Tekmaven : 28 Days Ago at 3:45 pm. Reason: Code tags