import sys if __name__ == "__main__": try: from urllib.request import urlopen, URLError except ImportError: from urllib2 import urlopen, URLError url = sys.argv[1] headers = {"Content-Type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8"} try: resp = urlopen(url) line = resp.readline().decode("ascii") # py3 except URLError: line = "failed to read %s" % url sys.stdout.write(line) sys.stdout.flush()