[Zope-dev] [zope.testbrowser] r84900

[Malthe Borch]

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