Python urllib urlopen not working

Question

I am just trying to fetch data from a live web by using the urllib module, so I wrote a simple example

Here is my code:

import urllib

sock = urllib         


        

Answer 1

This is what i use to get data from urls, its nice because you could save the file at the same time if you need it:

import urllib

result = urllib.urlretrieve("http://diveintopython.org/")

print open(result[0]).read()

output:

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Edit: urlretrieve works in python 2 and 3