why not in python 2.4.3

[Rocco]

Thanks Serge.
It's a gzip string.
So the code is
>>> import urllib2
>>> def takefeed(url):
        request=urllib2.Request(url)
        request.add_header('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
5.5;Windows NT')
        opener = urllib2.build_opener()
        data=opener.open(request).read()
        return data

>>> url='http://news.google.it/?output=rss'
>>> d=takefeed(url)
>>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>> zipdata=StringIO(d)
>>> import gzip
>>> gz=gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=zipdata)
>>> rss=gz.read()
>>> len(rss)
102529
>>> print rss[0:100]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss
version="2.0"><channel><generator>NFE/1.0</generator><tit
>>>