urlib - to use or not to use ( for web scraping )?

[Truman]

Any idea what substitute to use with requests for read() and decode() attributes that are a part of urlib?
for ex. in this code:

response = requests.get("http://freegeoip.net/json/"+ipAddress).read().decode('utf-8')

I tried to add .utils to this code on several positions but it doesn't work.