title: Site scraping drop down lists using Mechanize and python
body: <p>I am trying to get the available flights data from a website using mechanize and python, <a href="http://www.jet4you.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.jet4you.com</a> but the drop down list control shows "none" for the available items. Is there anyway to get the <code>&lt;options&gt;</code> using mechanize, urllib, or beautifulsoup?</p>
  
  <p>When I submit a form using fiddler I see the values of the dropdown list but I cannot select them using mechanize.</p>
  
  <pre><code>br = mechanize.Browser()
  br.possible_items("AvailabilityCompactSearchInputViewType$DropDownListMarketOrigin1")
  ["none"]
  </code></pre>