For Python 3 please: Implement function getContent() that takes as input a URL (

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For Python 3 please: Implement function getContent() that takes as input a URL (as a string) and prints only the text data content of the associated web page (i.e., no tags). Avoid printing blank lines that follow a blank line and strip the whitespace in every line printed. Please only urllib imports. Thank you for your help!

>>> getContent('http://www.nytimes.com/')

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from six.moves.urllib.request import urlopen

def getContent(urllink):
response = urlopen(urllink)
urlContent = response.read()
print(urlContent)
  
getContent("http://www.somesite.com/details.pl?urn=2344")

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