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  import requests

  r = requests.get('http://gun.io')
  print r.content

That's it! In only three lines of python, you can grab a whole webpage and print it to the screen. Awesome!

Well, that's a poor selling point that unduly diminishes the credibility of the article. Your audience is likely to know snappy alternatives such as

  curl gun.io

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Or even just urllib?

     import urllib

     foo = urllib.urlopen("http://gun.io).read()
     print foo

I mean...maybe urllib (or urllib2) are old and unhip at this point, but they're heavily documented.

I use urllib all over my projects and have never encountered any problems.

In fact, it's even better than what the author said:

  import requests
  print requests.get('http://gun.io').content

Only two lines!

Well...urllib is the same

    import urllib
    print urllib.urlopen('http://gun.io').read()

And to be clear, you'd really never want to just print the content like that. You'd be doing something like.

     import urllib
     import simplejson

     req = urllib.urlopen("https://graph.facebook.com/some_id")
     response = req.read()

     json_data = simplejson.loads(response)

(Python is syntactically pretty, imho)

    import requests; print requests.get('http://gun.io').content

my god, python is cloud scale.

In one statement:

    print __import__('requests').get('http://gun.io').content

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