Python debugging

>>> import mechanize
>>> url='http://www.latax.state.la.us/Menu_ParishTaxRolls/TaxRolls.aspx'
>>> br = mechanize.Browser()
>>> br.addheaders = [('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko)  Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17')]
>>> response = br.open(url)
>>> print response.read()
>>> response1 = br.response()

>>> for form in br.forms():
    print "Form name:", form.name
    print form


  <SelectControl(ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$ddParish=[*Select Parish, 22001, 22003, 22005, 22007, ..................
  <SelectControl(ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$ddYear=[])>


>>> br.select_form("aspnetForm")
>>> br.form = list(br.forms())[0]  # use when form is unnamed
>>> for control in br.form.controls:
    print control
    print "type=%s, name=%s value=%s" % (control.type, control.name, br[control.name])


<SelectControl(ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$ddParish=[*Select Parish, 22001, 22003, 22005, 22007,...............
type=select, name=ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$ddParish value=['Select Parish']

>>> control = br.form.find_control("ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$ddParish")
>>> if control.type == "select":  # means it's class ClientForm.SelectControl
    for item in control.items:
        print " name=%s values=%s" % (item.name, str([label.text  for label in item.get_labels()]))

>>> print control.value
['Select Parish']

>>> control.value=["22109"]
>>> response = br.submit()
>>> print response.read()




>>> br.select_form("aspnetForm")
>>> br.form = list(br.forms())[0]  # use when form is unnamed
>>> for control in br.form.controls:
    print control
    print "type=%s, name=%s value=%s" % (control.type, control.name, br[control.name])


<HiddenControl(dbcefce741_ctl00_MainMenuBar_Expanded=Panel4:0;Panel2:0;Panel10:0) (readonly)>
type=hidden, name=dbcefce741_ctl00_MainMenuBar_Expanded value=Panel4:0;Panel2:0;Panel10:0
<HiddenControl(dbcefce741_ctl00_MainMenuBar_Enabled=) (readonly)>
type=hidden, name=dbcefce741_ctl00_MainMenuBar_Enabled value=
<HiddenControl(dbcefce741_ctl00_MainMenuBar_Selected=) (readonly)>
type=hidden, name=dbcefce741_ctl00_MainMenuBar_Selected value=
<TextControl(ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$txtUsername=)>
type=text, name=ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$txtUsername value=
<TextControl(ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$txtPassword=)>
type=text, name=ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$txtPassword value=
<ImageControl(ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$btnEnter=)>
type=image, name=ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$btnEnter value=
<ImageControl(ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$btnReset=)>
type=image, name=ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderMain$btnReset value=
<ImageControl(ctl00$btnWebLogin=)>
type=image, name=ctl00$btnWebLogin value=
>>>