Setting a Select control in a form with Mechanize using Python

Question

I'm trying to use mechanize to select a form

browser.select_form('frmChangeLanguage')

.. got that.

But I'm struggling with changing a drop down box within the form and then submitting the form with the new value. The control looks like this:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<select id="controlID" class="select" name="selectLang">
<option value='4' selected>en</option>
<option value='1' >fr</option>
<option value='2' >hk</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit"/></td>
</tr>
</table>

I'm currently doing:

control = browser.form.controls[0]
control._value = 1    
browser.submit(name='button')

but this doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas? I'm using Python 2.7 with Mechanize installed on Windows.

Answer 1

According to the docs, the following should work:

form["selectLang"] = ["1"]
mechanize.urlopen(form.click())