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()