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MechanicalSoup v0.8.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-10-01 // over 6 years ago

  • 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.
    0️⃣ 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.

    0️⃣ 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.