Error received from _mechanize.py

[Raji Seetharaman]

Hi all,

Im learning web scraping with python from the following link
http://www.packtpub.com/article/web-scraping-with-python

To work with it,  mechanize to be installed
I installed mechanize using

sudo apt-get install python-mechanize

As given in the tutorial, i tried the code as below

import mechanize
BASE_URL = "http://www.packtpub.com/article-network"
br = mechanize.Browser()
data = br.open(BASE_URL).get_data()

Received the following error

File "webscrap.py", line 4, in <module>
    data = br.open(BASE_URL).get_data()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 209,
in open
    return self._mech_open(url, data, timeout=timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mechanize/_mechanize.py", line 261,
in _mech_open
    raise response
mechanize._response.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 403: request
disallowed by robots.txt


Any Ideas? Welcome
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