gistfile1.txt

import mechanize

br = mechanize.Browser()
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11')]
br.set_handle_robots(False)
br.open("http://hagstofa.is/?PageID=618&src=/temp/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=UMH01101%26ti=Fri%F0l%FDst+sv%E6%F0i+1928%2D2011+%26path=../Database/land/landfr/%26lang=3%26units=Fj%F6ldi%20/ferk%EDl%F3metri")
print "page opened"
for link in br.links():
    if(link.text == None):
        br.open(link.url)
        br.select_form(name='main')   
        br.form.set_all_readonly(False)
        print "opened"
        for control in br.form.controls:
            if control.type == "select":
                items = [item.attrs['value'] for item in control.items]
                print items
                control.value = items                
                print control.name
        print "submitting form"
        s = br.find_control("sel")
        response = br.submit("sel")
        print "submitted"
        print response.read()