fetch a html page via proxy?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Ricardo> I need to fetch a page from the web but the linux machine
    Ricardo> doesn't have direct connection to the net.  It needs to go thru
    Ricardo> a proxy to connect to the web.  How can I do this with Python?

The urllib module handles proxies.  If you set the http_proxy environment
variable appropriately on Unix or Windows or do the Internet Config thing on 
Mac, it will use the proxy instead of attempting to make a direct connection 
to the server.

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