Python requests lib example

requests.py

import requests

# Retrieving Vladimir Putin's interviews from Kremlin website 
response = requests.get('http://en.kremlin.ru/search', params={'query': 'interview'}, timeout=40)

# Checking response status code
if response.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
    # Output response content as a string
    print response.text
else:
    # Status code is not 200
    print 'Error occured'