I installed mechanize via pip and get an errer when I import the module:
$ python
Python 3.5.2 (default, Jun 28 2016, 08:46:01)
[GCC 6.1.1 20160602] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import mechanize
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mechanize/__init__.py", line 119, in <module>
from _version import __version__
ImportError: No module named '_version'
The file -version.py is present in the site-packages directory:
$ ls /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mechanize
_auth.py __init__.py _response.py
_beautifulsoup.py _lwpcookiejar.py _rfc3986.py
_clientcookie.py _markupbase.py _sgmllib_copy.py
_debug.py _mechanize.py _sockettimeout.py
_firefox3cookiejar.py _mozillacookiejar.py _testcase.py
_form.py _msiecookiejar.py _urllib2_fork.py
_gzip.py _opener.py _urllib2.py
_headersutil.py _pullparser.py _useragent.py
_html.py __pycache__ _util.py
_http.py _request.py _version.py
What am I missing?
If you look at setup.py you'll see mechanize is a Python 2.x package:
Programming Language :: Python
Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Programming Language :: Python :: 2.4
Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5
Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Apart from that, you can see in mechanize/__init__.py that all imports are relative:
from _version import __version__
instead of explicit:
from ._version import __version__
In python 3, this results in import errors.
There's an issue opened for Py3 support and it lists some alternatives you could try. That, or port it :-).