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.