import urllib

def process_file(reader):
    ''' Read and print the contents of reader '''

    for line in reader:
        line = line.strip()
        print line

if __name__ == '__main__':
    f = open("hopedale.dat",'r')
    process_file(f)
    f.close()

    url = "http://www.robjhyndman.com/TSDL/ecology1/hopedale.dat"
    web_page = urllib.urlopen(url)
    process_file(web_page)
    web_page.close()