from astroid import MANAGER from astroid.builder import AstroidBuilder def mechanize_transform(module): fake = AstroidBuilder(MANAGER).string_build(''' class Browser(object): def open(self, url, data=None, timeout=None): return None def open_novisit(self, url, data=None, timeout=None): return None def open_local_file(self, filename): return None ''') module.locals['Browser'] = fake.locals['Browser'] import py2stdlib py2stdlib.MODULE_TRANSFORMS['mechanize'] = mechanize_transform