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12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
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Expand Up @@ -1249,7 +1249,10 @@ It is also possible to achieve the same result without using the

>>> import urllib.request
>>> f = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.python.org/')
>>> print(f.read(100).decode('utf-8'))
>>> try:
... print(f.read(100).decode('utf-8'))
... finally:
... f.close()
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtm

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opener = urllib.request.build_opener(auth_handler)
# ...and install it globally so it can be used with urlopen.
urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.example.com/login.html')
with urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.example.com/login.html') as r:
print(r.read().decode('utf-8'))

:func:`build_opener` provides many handlers by default, including a
:class:`ProxyHandler`. By default, :class:`ProxyHandler` uses the environment
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req.add_header('Referer', 'http://www.python.org/')
# Customize the default User-Agent header value:
req.add_header('User-Agent', 'urllib-example/0.1 (Contact: . . .)')
r = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as r:
print(r.read().decode('utf-8'))


:class:`OpenerDirector` automatically adds a :mailheader:`User-Agent` header to
every :class:`Request`. To change this::
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