Handling rss redirects with Python/urllib2

Question

Calling urrlib2.urlopen on a link to an article fetched from an RSS feed leads to the following error:

urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 301:

Answer 1

Nothing wrong with @sleeplessnerd's solution, but this is very, very slightly more elegant:

import urllib2
url = "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9926023/handling-rss-redirects-with-python-urllib2"
p = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor).open(url)

print p.read()

In fact, if you look at the inline documentation for the CookieJar() function, it more-or-less tells you to do things this way:

You may not need to know about this class: try urllib2.build_opener(HTTPCookieProcessor).open(url)