code: def url_read(url, verbose=True):
      r
      if url.find('://') == -1:
          url = 'http://' + url
      if verbose:
          print('Reading data from url=%r' % (url,))
      try:
          file_ = _urllib.request.urlopen(url)
          #file_ = _urllib.urlopen(url)
      except IOError:
          raise
      data = file_.read()
      file_.close()
      return data
docs: r"""
      Directly reads data from url