>>> from urllib import urlopen >>> doc = urlopen("http://www.python.org").read() >>> print doc ---+--- >>> import urllib >>> uf = urllib.urlopen('http://www.python.org') >>> doc = uf.read() >>> print doc ---+--- reference : correct working code(py 3.0) >>> import urllib.request >>> uh = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.python.org') >>> h_source = uh.read() >>> print(html) >>> f = open("d:\\tmp..