python download html as string

1# open-webpage.py
2
3import urllib.request, urllib.error, urllib.parse
4
5url = 'http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17800628-33&div=t17800628-33'
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7response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
8webContent = response.read()
9
10print(webContent[0:300])
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