Code snippet:
def open(self, url, data=None): """See zope.testbrowser.interfaces.IBrowser""" url = str(url)
This string coercion is unfortunate, because ``mechanize`` accepts a (mechanize-) request-object in place of a URL string here. Using a custom request object allows us to do such things as setting the REQUEST_TYPE header string, which is not possible throught the standard API. Changeset comment: - Remove vendor import of mechanize. - Fix bug that caused HTTP exception tracebacks to differ between version 3.4.0 and 3.4.1. - Workaround for bug in Python Cookie.SimpleCookie when handling unicode strings. - Fix bug introduced in 3.4.1 that created incompatible tracebacks in doctests. This necessitated adding a patched mechanize to the source tree; patches have been sent to the mechanize project. Not sure which of the above this coercion is trying to solve, but perhaps it could be solved in a way that didn't break the mechanize functionality. \malthe