python mechanize is a Python module for static programmatic web browsing in Python, after Andy Lester's Perl module WWW::Mechanize. With the Browser subclass any url can be opened - not just http - and UserAgentBase offers easy dynamic configuration of user-agent features like protocol, cookie, redirection and robots.txt handling. Other functionalities include easy HTML form filling using ClientForm interface, convenient link parsing and following, browser history with .back() and .reload() methods and automatic handling of HTTP-Equiv and Refresh.