Version 0.8
Main changes:
* `Browser` and `StatefulBrowser` can now be configured to raise a
`LinkNotFound` exception when encountering a 404 Not Found error.
This is activated by passing `raise_on_404=True` to the constructor.
It is disabled by default for backward compatibility, but is highly
recommanded.
* `Browser` now has a `__del__` method that closes the current session
when the object is deleted.
* A `Link` object can now be passed to `follow_link`.
* The user agent can now be customized. The default includes
`MechanicalSoup` and its version.
* There is now a direct interface to the cookiejar in `*Browser`
classes (`(set|get)_cookiejar` methods).
* This is the last MechanicalSoup version supporting Python 2.6 and
3.3.
Bug fixes:
* We used to crash on forms without action="..." fields.
* The `choose_submit` method has been fixed, and the `btnName`
argument of `StatefulBrowser.submit_selected` is now a shortcut for
using `choose_submit`.
* Arguments to `open_relative` were not properly forwarded.
Internal changes:
* The testsuite has been greatly improved. It now uses the pytest API
(not only the `pytest` launcher) for more concise code.
* The coverage of the testsuite is now measured with codecov.io. The
results can be viewed on:
https://codecov.io/gh/hickford/MechanicalSoup
* We now have a requires.io badge to help us tracking issues with
dependencies. The report can be viewed on:
https://requires.io/github/hickford/MechanicalSoup/requirements/
* The version number now appears in a single place in the source code.
A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
MechanicalSoup automatically stores and sends cookies, follows
redirects, and can follow links and submit forms. It doesn't do
Javascript.
