Python Mechanize With Ntlm Getting Attributeerror: Httpresponse Instance Has No Attribute '__iter__'

I am trying to access a site that's secured with NTLM authentication using python-ntlm and mechanize but I am getting this error. File 'build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/mechan

Solution 1:

I patched mechanize to work around this:

--- _response.py.old    2013-02-06 11:14:33.208385467 +0100
+++ _response.py    2013-02-06 11:21:41.884081708 +0100
@@ -350,8 +350,13 @@
             self.fileno = self.fp.fileno
         else:
             self.fileno = lambda: None
-        self.__iter__ = self.fp.__iter__
-        self.next = self.fp.next
+
+        if hasattr(self.fp, "__iter__"):
+            self.__iter__ = self.fp.__iter__
+            self.next = self.fp.next
+        else:
+            self.__iter__ = lambda self: self
+            self.next = lambda self: self.fp.readline()

     def __repr__(self):
         return '<%s at %s whose fp = %r>' % (