What's the easiest way to get mechanize for Python 3 on Debian?
mechanize, python, python-3.x
Solution
There's been no activity in the Mechanize repository for several years. Despite the experimental Python 3 branch suggested, it has not been merged and there is no official response to the request for support.
If you're looking for an active project, you may wish to look elsewhere. Two similar projects compatible with Python 3 are
- MechanicalSoup - "A Python library for automating interaction with websites."
- RoboBrowser - "a simple, Pythonic library for browsing the web without a standalone web browser."
Both use Requests and BeautifulSoup. As of mid-2015, the latter shows slightly more activity.
Problem
I recently wanted to port my scraper that uses `mechanize.Browser` to Python 3. I haven't found any `python3-mechanize` package or anything like that. I'm not yet familiar with Python module building with some special procedures so I don't know how would I use `2to3` there. Any suggestions? @edit: I'm accepting Sibi's answer because it is currently the best. I will be pleased to award any other answer this way, if it just points to a better solution.