The standard library module for fetching HTML is urllib2. The best module for scraping the HTML is BeautifulSoup.
There is a project called mechanize, built by John Lee on top of urllib2 and other standard modules. It will emulate a browsers behaviour - including history, cookies, basic authentication, etc. There are several modules for automated form filling - FormEncode being one. All the best, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
