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magicrebirth on 07/07/10


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  1. # if you are on the internet you can access the HTML code of a 
  2. # given web site
  3. # using the urlopen() method/function from the module urllib2
  4.  
  5. import urllib2
  6.  
  7. urlStr = 'http://www.python.org/'
  8. try:
  9.   fileHandle = urllib2.urlopen(urlStr)
  10.   str1 = fileHandle.read()
  11.   fileHandle.close()
  12.   print '-'*50
  13.   print 'HTML code of URL =', urlStr
  14.   print '-'*50
  15. except IOError:
  16.   print 'Cannot open URL %s for reading' % urlStr
  17.   str1 = 'error!'
  18.  
  19. print str1

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