Requests in Python for Windows

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Yes and a much better choice than urllib.request.
You don't have to guess on encoding,you get the right encoding
As just one example why is better.

import requests

url = 'http://google.com'
rdata = requests.get(url)
print(rdata.encoding) # ISO-8859-1
print(rdata.text) # Source code

It's a popular kid

Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages of all time,
pulling in over 7,000,000 downloads every month. All the cool kids are doing it!