Reading the file stored in the HTML

gethtml.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import urllib2
import sys

def savefile(contents, filename):
    f = open(filename, 'w')
    f.write(contents)
    f.close()

def gethtml(url):
    response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    return response.read()

def main(argv):
    if len(argv) != 3:
        print 'Usage: gethtml.py <url> <savefile>'
        return 1

    url = argv[1]
    filename = argv[2]
    html = gethtml(url)
    savefile(html, filename)
    return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))