Get document as normal text and not as binary data

[Fredrik Lundh]

Markus Franz wrote:

> I used urllib2 to load a html-document through http. But my problem
> is: The loaded contents are returned as binary data, that means that every
> character is displayed like lÃ?Ãt, for example. How can I get the
> contents as normal text?
>
> My script was:
>
> import urllib2
> req = urllib2.Request(url)
> f = urllib2.urlopen(req)

adding

    print f.headers

and checking the header fields (especially the content-type) may help you
figure out what's going on...

> contents = f.read()
> print contents
> f.close()

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