If I understand right, the equivalent in python wouldn't be r = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read() d = literal_eval(r.decode()) But rather: r = u

If I understand right, the equivalent in python wouldn't be r = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read() d = literal_eval(r.decode()) But rather: r = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read() logging.info(r.content) Wouldn't that be pretty insane if the those two code fragments were functionally equivalent?