How to readlines() from urllib

Question

I have program using http and I want to read data from http:

data = urllib.request.urlopen(someAddress).read()

And prepare from it list of

Answer 1

I usually do something like. I use urllib2, but it shouldn't be so different:

from urllib2 import Request, urlopen

def getPage(link, splitting = '\n'):
    request = Request(link)
    try:
        response = urlopen(request)
    except IOError:
        return -1
    else:
        the_page = response.read()
        return the_page.split(splitting)