How to download a web page using IronPython

Downloading a web page is a common programming task. Here are two snippets of code that show how to do it with IronPython. The code was tested on Windows and Mac (with Mono).

Using the WebClient class

from System.Net import WebClient
dataStream = WebClient().OpenRead('http://google.com')
from System.IO import StreamReader
reader = StreamReader(dataStream)
result = reader.ReadToEnd()
print result

Using the WebRequest and WebResponse classes

from System.Net import WebRequest
request = WebRequest.Create("http://google.com")
response = request.GetResponse()
responseStream = response.GetResponseStream()
from System.IO import StreamReader
result = StreamReader(responseStream).ReadToEnd()
print result