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urllib2 with cookies.py
import urllib2
import cookielib
cookiejar = cookielib.LWPCookieJar()
cookies = urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookiejar)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(cookies)
# UA in next line is a bit old
opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-GB;rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100824 Firefox/3.6.9')]
page = opener.open(url)
lines = page.readlines()
page.close()
opener.close()
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