Web client, https and session management

[Yannick Turgeon]

Hello all,

2-3 years ago, I did a program in perl. Now I have to modify it and I
want to rewrite it from scratch using Python.

The program is doing this:
1- Load Yahoo login webpage (https)
2- Log into Yahoo website using my personal login and password.
3- Grasp and extract some information from my mailing lists messages
(http, not https).

My questions are:
- Is it possible to do this using Python?
- How?

To acheive point #3, which is the goal, my web client has to manage
session (because of the login aspect). This is the part I don't know
how it's working. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Yannick