HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using The urllib PackageHOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using The urllib Package¶ Author: Michael Foord Introduction¶ urllib.request is a Python module for fetching URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). It offers a very simple interface, in the form of the urlopen function. This is capable of fetching URLs using a variety of different protocols. It also offers a slightly more complex interface for handling common situations -
