Now you are familiar with the main aspects of `HTML`. Let's learn the first way to work with it in `Python`.

One of the modules that you can use to handle `HTML` files in `Python` is `urllib.request`. We must import the `urlopen` method for opening web  pages. Pass the URL page you want to open as the method's parameter.

# Importing the module
from urllib.request import urlopen

# Opening web page
url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/mother.html"
page = urlopen(url)
print(page)

As you can see above, you received `http.client.HTTPResponse object` as a result. Differs from what we wanted. You should apply the `.read()` and `.decode("utf-8")` methods to the object you got to get the `HTML` structure.

# Importing the module
from urllib.request import urlopen

# Opening web page
url = "https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/18a4e428-1a0f-44c2-a8ad-244cd9c7985e/mother.html"
page = urlopen(url)

# Reading and decoding
web_page = page.read().decode("utf-8")
print(type(web_page))
print(web_page)

As you can see, after applying the `.read()` and `.decode()` methods you got the string as the result. This string stores an `HTML` structure in a pretty format so that it can be easily read and you can apply string methods to it.

If the `.decode()` method wasn't been applied, then you would receive the `bytes` object with all the `HTML` page been represented in a single string with specific characters. Feel free to try!

Here we will explore the structure of the HTML file,  how to load it, and work with the data in the file.

Learn how to extract the data more comfortably with the BeautifulSoup library. In this section, you will learn how to access specific elements and their children.

In this section, you will continue the journey with the Beautiful Soup. These, you will learn how to get attributes and contents of certain elements and how to search elements with certain attribute values.