[Zope-dev] Switching zope.testbrowser to webtest instead of mechanize

[Andrey Lebedev]

Hello zope-dev,

As you may already know, there is an effort to port zope packages to 
Python 3 going on. As part of this effort we want to port zope.testbrowser.

Unfortunately, mechanize package, that zope.testbrowser depends on has 
no py3 support. There is an unfinished effort at [1], however, after 
closer examination of the codebase and state of the port, it seems more 
practical to switch internal implementation of zope.testbrowser to webtest.

So far, it seems webtest has all the features needed to do the switch. I 
started a branch at github ([2]) to track work in progress. The goal is 
to make most (say 80%) of existing tests to work without modifications 
under new implementation.


[1] http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~adevore/mechanize/
[2] https://github.com/zopefoundation/zope.testbrowser/tree/webtest

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