urllib should support iterator interface

Sat May 17 08:20:54 EDT 2003

Neal D. Becker wrote:
> Subject says it all.  To be more consistent with file interface,
> urllib.open() should return an object that is iterable.
> 

 >>> from urllib import *
 >>> for l in urlopen('http://www.python.org'):
...     print l,
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<?xml-stylesheet href="./css/ht2html.css" type="text/css"?>
<html>
<!-- THIS PAGE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED.  DO NOT EDIT. -->
<!-- Tue May 13 19:08:32 2003 -->

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 From Python 2.3 on it does