with urllib.request.urlopen('http://python.org/') as response:

html = response.read()

If you wish to retrieve a resource via URL and store it in a temporary location,

you can do so via the :func:`~urllib.request.urlretrieve` function::

If you wish to retrieve a resource via URL and store it in a temporary

location, you can do so via the :func:`shutil.copyfileobj` and

:func:`tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile` functions::

import shutil

import tempfile

import urllib.request

local_filename, headers = urllib.request.urlretrieve('http://python.org/')

html = open(local_filename)

with urllib.request.urlopen('http://python.org/') as response:

with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) as tmp_file:

shutil.copyfileobj(response, tmp_file)

with open(tmp_file.name) as html:

pass

Many uses of urllib will be that simple (note that instead of an 'http:' URL we

could have used a URL starting with 'ftp:', 'file:', etc.). However, it's the