Now, all of the data is contained within buff. All we need to do is step through it, printing as we go.
for line in buff: print line
Now, you can save the program and call it with the name of the server and the name of the file you want to see. For example, try:
python simple_web_client.py python.about.com /
If you run your own server, you can access your web directory as follows:
python simple_web_client.py localhost /What you will receive is the raw HTML of the index file. You can then process it as plain text or parse it with urllib or urllib2.