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 Introduction
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-.. sidebar:: Related Articles
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-    You may also find useful the following article on fetching web resources
-    with Python:
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-    * `Basic Authentication <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml>`_
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-        A tutorial on *Basic Authentication*, with examples in Python.
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 **urllib.request** is a Python module for fetching URLs
 (Uniform Resource Locators). It offers a very simple interface, in the form of
 the *urlopen* function. This is capable of fetching URLs using a variety of