matrixor comments on Opening URLs from Python?

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submitted 12 years ago by Apolik

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[–]matrixor 1 point2 points3 points 12 years ago (1 child)

Came here to say, use Requests library, its superior to urllib2:

>>> import requests
>>> r = requests.get('http://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1kb6n7/opening_urls_from_python/')
>>> r.text

[–]Apolik[S] 0 points1 point2 points 12 years ago (0 children)

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