How to send requests with python

[Arrowx7]

Hello,
I an trying to recieve an XML or HTML page from another server.
Is there a way to make python send a request to that server via HTTP and recieve a response containing the XML/HTML page.
How do we get that into a string so I can process it etc..
Kind of like a web browser does. It goes to a certain URL and recieves the HTML or XML via text transfer.

I am sure python is capable of something like that.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks

 

[JustinEzequiel]

check out urllib, urllib2

>>> import urllib
>>> readable = urllib.urlopen('[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.python.org/')[/URL]
>>> contents = readable.read()
>>> print contents