Python Open url
# 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