Extracting HTML Documents from Web Pages Using Python

Question: Can you extract HTML documents from live web pages without even using an internet browser?
Answer: Yes you can. All you need is a Python interpreter and these short commands:

>>> import urllib
>>> sock = urllib.urlopen("PAGE URL")
>>> htmlSource = sock.read()
>>> sock.close()
>>> print htmlSource

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