Extracing data from webpage

[Alex]

On Sep 11, 11:55 am, srinivasan srinivas <sri_anna... at yahoo.co.in>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to download data from a webpage. I use mechanize python module.
> Could someone tell me how to set/pass an agent like Mozilla or IE that we do in perl's WWW::Mechanize??
>
> Thanks,
> Srini
>
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If you have to parse a web page, this could be also useful:
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/