libgmail login() runs with error

I just insta开发者_运维知识库lled libgmail on CentOS 5, python 2.6 with easy_install. There was a problem, until i installed mechanize manually. After that easy_install said OK and i wrote 1st test program from the sample i googled:

    import libgmail

    ga = libgmail.GmailAccount("someaccount@gmail.com", "mypassword")
    ga.login()
    folder = ga.getMessagesByFolder('inbox')

    for thread in folder:
      print thread.id, len(thread), thread.subject
      for msg in thread:
        print "  ", msg.id, msg.number, msg.subject
        print msg.source

I get the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "gm.py", line 4, in <module>
    ga.login()
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/libgmail.py", line 305, in login
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/libgmail.py", line 340, in _retrievePage
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/mechanize/_request.py", line 31, in __init__
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/mechanize/_rfc3986.py", line 62, in is_clean_uri
TypeError: expected string or buffer

It seems, i get a problem not with my python code, but with libgmail installation. Any clues, anyone?

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libgmail is deprecated and has stopped developing, since gmail started offering imap access.

Use imaplib or similar (twisted.mail comes to mind, example code here).