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urllib2 to string

I'm using urllib2 to open a url. Now I need the html file as a string. How do I do this?

Solution

  • The easiest way would be:

    f = urllib2.urlopen("http://example.com/foo/bar")
s = f.read()
# s now holds the contents of the site

    There is more information in the urllib2 docs.

    urlopen() returns a file-like object, so Python's file object methods work.