Logging in to google using python?

Question

I am fairly new to web programing but for the sake of it, I am trying to login to google account not using standard code but as a python application, but it is impossible to

Answer 1

2020 update for python 3:

def unread_messages(user, passwd):
    auth_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
    auth_handler.add_password(
        realm='New mail feed',
        uri='https://mail.google.com',
        user='%s@gmail.com' % user,
        passwd=passwd
    )
    opener = urllib.request.build_opener(auth_handler)
    urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
    feed = urllib.request.urlopen('https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom')
    return feed.read()


print(unread_messages('username','password')