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at July 7, 2010 20:40 by magicrebirth


Initial Code
# if you are on the internet you can access the HTML code of a 
# given web site
# using the urlopen() method/function from the module urllib2
 
import urllib2
 
urlStr = 'http://www.python.org/'
try:
  fileHandle = urllib2.urlopen(urlStr)
  str1 = fileHandle.read()
  fileHandle.close()
  print '-'*50
  print 'HTML code of URL =', urlStr
  print '-'*50
except IOError:
  print 'Cannot open URL %s for reading' % urlStr
  str1 = 'error!'
 
print str1

Initial URL
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread31148.html

Initial Description


Initial Title
Open URL - Python

Initial Tags
url, web

Initial Language
Python