Client-Side web programming
Resources
[http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52199 Grab a document from the web] - from the Python Cookbook
[http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bits/clientx.html Python web-client programming general FAQs]
[http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html urllib -- Open arbitrary resources by URL]
[http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib2.html urllib2 -- extensible library for opening URLs]