load a web page and save source as text

Fri May 5 11:50:42 EDT 2000

"technology" <technology at mylinuxisp.com> writes:

> From python I want to be able to request a web age and save the source as
> text. do I import a html module?

No, urllib.

>>> text = urllib.urlopen("http://www.python.org").read()
>>> text[:100]
'<HTML>\012<!-- THIS PAGE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED.  DO NOT EDIT. -->\012<!-- Tue May  2 14:10:44 2000 --'

> what is the syntax to send a html request and and then assign results to
> variable. I then would write the variable to a file correct?

Yup.

HTH,
Michael

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