added functionality to automatically_authenticate

[deanmalmgren]

Hey Paul,

I just added a fbconsole.automatically_authenticate that addresses the issue I raised earlier this morning. It includes documentation and the addition of mechanize to the install requirements. To be honest, I'm not sure how nicely this plays with python 3 but I had some code written elsewhere that I was able to easily rip so I thought I'd post it as a candidate solution.

Happy to help modify this as necessary...

Cheers.
Dean

[pcardune]

hmm, I guess I don't check my github notifications very often. Are you still interested in seeing this merged? Looks like a cool feature. I haven't reviewed the code that thoroughly yet, but if you still want to merge this, I'll look it over.

[deanmalmgren]

ha; no worries.

I'd be happy to help merge it over as I think it is a feature many people would find useful. It has honestly been long enough that I've pretty much forgotten how everything worked, but I'd be happy to help with the merge.

[pcardune]

Ok. I'll check it out and see if it works with python3

[pcardune]

According to http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/faq.html, python3 is not supported by mechanize yet, and in fact your branch breaks this package in python3. We could make this a python2.7 only feature until mechanize is ported, which I think some people are working on.

If you could make the following changes, I'll be happy to merge this in:

• only add mechanize to install_requires if we are using python2.7 or below
• make the import of mechanize in fbconsole.py optional
• update the docs to explain that this is only supported in python2.7
• throw an exception with a nice error message when someone tries to use automatically_authenticate() in python 3.

[deanmalmgren]

There you go. I think that covers it. If anything doesn't check out, let me know and I can take another crack at it.

[pcardune]

Great! looks good. There are a couple things that could be fixed (doesn't work if you have login approvals turned on) but I can try to get those to work on my own before I cut the next release.

[pcardune]

@deanmalmgren I'm thinking of removing this functionality from the package since it doesn't seem to be working anymore and I don't have time to support it. Are you interested in making an update to get it working again?