scratchings-races/_html.py

import requests


"""
This module contains methods to retrieve pages
"""


def get_page(this_url):
    """
    Simple utility gets the contents of a webpage
    @TODO Add Try/Catch blocks. Handle http errors.
    :param this_url:
    :return:
    """
    print("Retrieving {}".format(this_url))
    data = requests.get(this_url)
    return data.text