Python equivalents of common Perl modules?

Question

I need to rewrite some Perl code in python. Therefore, I am looking for the closest modules to what I am currently using in Perl (i.e., with similar functionality and stability):

• DBI + DBD :: mysql
• LWP :: UserAgent
• WWW :: Mechanize
• XML :: LibXML
• HTML :: TreeBuilder
• CGI :: FormBuilder
• Template :: Toolkit

What are the Python equivalents for them?

Answer 1

• All Python database modules use the same API, so MySQLdb or oursql will work.
• urllib2
• mechanize
• etree or lxml
• There is no direct equivalent, but BeautifulSoup and lxml can be parsed, and etree and lxml can generate.
• FormEncode
• Genshi , Jinja2 , mako , cheetah and too many others

urllib2 and etree are in the standard library; the rest is easy to get.

Answer 2

DBI + DBD :: mysql

• Mysqldb

LWP :: UserAgent

• urllib (Python STL)
• urllib2 (Python STL)

WWW :: Mechanize

• Mechanize

XML :: LibXML

• libxml2
• lxml

HTML :: TreeBuilder

• xml.etree.ElementTree (Python STL)

CGI :: FormBuilder

• cgi and cgitb (Python STL)

Template :: Toolkit

• Python pattern

Note. Elements marked as Python STL above are included as part of the Python standard library, as described in the Python v2.6.4 documentation .