import urllib webURL = "http://www.python.org" localURL = "index.html" u = urllib.urlopen(webURL) buffer = u.read() print u.info() print "Read %d bytes from %s.\n" % (len(buffer), u.geturl()) u = urllib.urlopen(localURL) buffer = u.read() print u.info() print "Read %d bytes from %s." % (len(buffer), u.geturl())