<s>[INST] What is the quickest way to HTTP GET in Python? What is the quickest way to HTTP GET in Python if I know the Content will be a string? I am searching the docs for a quick one-liner like:
contents = url.get("http://example.com/foo/bar")

But all I can find using Google are httplib and urllib - and I am unable to find a shortcut in those libraries.
Does standard Python 2.5 have a shortcut in some form as above, or should I write a function url_get?

I would prefer not to capture the output of shelling out to wget or curl.

 [/INST] Python 2.x:
import urllib2
urllib2.urlopen("http://example.com/foo/bar").read()

Python 3.x:
import urllib.request
urllib.request.urlopen("http://example.com/foo/bar").read()

Documentation for urllib.request and read.
How is that?
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