import urllib.request as urllib2
response = urllib2.urlopen('https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/readme.txt')
data = response.read()
print(data)
import urllib.request as urllib2 # the lib that handles the url stuff
data = urllib2.urlopen(target_url) # it's a file like object and works just like a file
for line in data: # files are iterable
print line