Can webbrowser module get source code?

[Muddy Coder]

Hi All,

I played the demo of webbrowser module, with the code below:

import webbrowser
url = 'https://login.yahoo.com'
webbrowser.open_new_tab(url)

when I ran the code, it popped out a webpage nicely. I want to go
further: to get the source code of the webpage being displayed. Is it
possible to do it? I tried webbrow.get() but didn't work. Somebody can
help? Thanks!


Muddy Coder

 

[Benjamin Peterson]

I want to go
further: to get the source code of the webpage being displayed. Is it
possible to do it? I tried webbrow.get() but didn't work. Somebody can
help? Thanks!

To do this, you actually need to fetch the page yourself:

import urllib2
page_source = urllib2.urlopen("http://someaddress.com").read()