import urllib2     # the urllib2 module defines functions and classes which help in opening URLs (mostly HTTP) in a complex world - basic and digest authentication, redirections, cookies and more.

url1 = 'http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/print.jsp?div=t17800628-33'
response1 = urllib2.urlopen(url1)      # call the function urlopen which is stored in the urllib2 module to open the specified URL. Then save the open version of the requested webpage into the variable response1.
webContent1 = response1.read()      # copy the contents of the requested open webpage into the vatiable webContent1.

f = open('obo_webpage','w')
f.write(webContent1)
f.close
print webContent1 [0:300]      # index the first 300 rows.

url2 = 'http://dict.youdao.com/search?le=eng&q=redirection&keyfrom=dict.top'
response2 = urllib2.urlopen (url2)
webContent2 = response2.read ()

print webContent2