Python url download test

downloadtest.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# LICENSE: CC0/Public Domain - To the extent possible under law, rugk has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. This work is published from: Deutschland.

import sys
try:
    from urllib.request import urlopen # Python 3
except ImportError:
    from urllib2 import urlopen # Python 2

testurl = "https://..."

if len(sys.argv) >= 2:
    testurl = sys.argv[1]

print "Accessing " + testurl + "..."
resp = urlopen(testurl)
respdata = resp.read()
print "RAW:"
print respdata
resp_data = respdata.decode('utf8').strip()
print "\nDecoded:"
print resp_data