"""This module contains code from Think Python by Allen B. Downey http://thinkpython.com Copyright 2012 Allen B. Downey License: GNU GPLv3 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html """ """This is the simplest solution to the problem; I made no effort to parse the HTML code. Instead I just search for some key words. An alternative would be to use the HTMLParser module: http://docs.python.org/library/htmlparser.html """ import urllib zipcode = '02492' url = 'http://uszip.com/zip/' + zipcode conn = urllib.urlopen(url) for line in conn.fp: line = line.strip() if 'Population' in line: print line if 'Longitude' in line: print line if 'Latitude' in line: print line conn.close()