If you don't want to use a subprocess to start wget, you can use the urllib2 module ( http://docs.python.org/library/ ) : Code: import urllib2 f = urllib2.urlopen('http://192.168.2.45/control/rcem?KEY_HOME') data = f.read() f.close()
import urllib2 f = urllib2.urlopen('http://192.168.2.45/control/rcem?KEY_HOME') data = f.read() f.close()