I did sth. like this:
proxy_url = "http://user:pa...@proxy.yourproxy.org:8080"
proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': proxy_url})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
src = urllib2.urlopen(url)
now you can easily read from src.
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