python urllib2 urlopen response python urllib2 urlopen response python python

python urllib2 urlopen response


You need to bind the resultant file-like object to a variable, otherwise the interpreter just dumps it via repr:

>>> import urllib2>>> urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com')<addinfourl at 18362520 whose fp = <socket._fileobject object at 0x106b250>>>>> >>> f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com')>>> f<addinfourl at 18635448 whose fp = <socket._fileobject object at 0x106b950>>

To get the actual data you need to perform a read().

>>> data = f.read()>>> data[:50]'<!doctype html><html itemscope="itemscope" itemtyp'

To see the headers returned:

>>> print f.headersDate: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:46:22 GMTExpires: -1Cache-Control: private, max-age=0... etc ...


Add the following after your call to urlopen

print feed.read()


Perhaps you will find using the requests library more intuitive to use than urllib2.