From 52e5198d88720ac0814935b0b1707d99c46c1f3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hal Simpson <hasimpson@usgs.gov>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:05:32 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Added read_url to Util file
---
geomagio/Util.py | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/geomagio/Util.py b/geomagio/Util.py
index 85eee183..028d0339 100644
--- a/geomagio/Util.py
+++ b/geomagio/Util.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+import urllib2
class ObjectView(object):
"""
@@ -17,3 +17,33 @@ class ObjectView(object):
Override string representation to output wrapped dictionary.
"""
return str(self.__dict__)
+
+
+def read_url(url):
+ """Open and read url contents.
+
+ Parameters
+ ----------
+ url : str
+ A urllib2 compatible url, such as http:// or file://.
+
+ Returns
+ -------
+ str
+ contents returned by url.
+
+ Raises
+ ------
+ urllib2.URLError
+ if any occurs
+ """
+ response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
+ content = None
+ try:
+ content = response.read()
+ except urllib2.URLError, e:
+ print e.reason
+ raise
+ finally:
+ response.close()
+ return content
--
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