Extract text from a file object using .read()

Question

I'm trying to read the source of a website with this code:

import urllib2
z=urllib2.urlopen('http://skreemr.com/results.jsp?q=said+the+whale&search=SkreemR+Search')
z.read()
print z
txt = open('music.txt','w')
txt.write(str(z))
txt.close()
for i in open('music.txt','r'):
        if '''onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/clicks/''' in i:
                print i

And all I get for the source code is:

<addinfourl at 51561608L whose fp = <socket._fileobject object at 0x0000000002CCA480>>

It might be an error I don't know?
Does anyone know of a better way to do the job above without putting it into a text file first?

Answer 1

z is a file object. In fact your codes prints the object description. You need to put the result of z.read() inside a variable (or print it directly).

You should do

import urllib2
z=urllib2.urlopen('http://skreemr.com/results.jsp?q=said+the+whale&search=SkreemR+Search')
i = z.read()
print i