Opening url's

Fri Oct 22 16:03:20 EDT 1999

rainer2207 at my-deja.com writes:

> Can anyone tell me how I can open a page given a URL? There seems to be
> very little documentation on urllib abd I haven't seen any examples. I
> have a CGI script which calls another CGI script. I would like this
> CGI script to call the CGI script it came from. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Please have a look at the urllib documentation, at

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-urllib.html

A simple example follows:

>>> import urllib
>>> f=urllib.urlopen("http://www.python.org/")
>>> s=f.readlines()
>>> s[0]
'<HTML>\012'
>>> s[1]
'<!-- THIS PAGE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED.  DO NOT EDIT. -->\012'

Hope this helps,
Martin