Using PDFMiner (Python) with online pdf files. Encode the url?

Question

I am wishing to extract the content of pdf files available online using PDFMiner.

My code is based on the one available in the documentation used to ext

Answer 1

Well, I finally found out a solution,

I resorted on Request and StringIO and got rid off the open('my_file', 'rd') command

from urllib2 import Request
from StringIO import StringIO

url = 'my_url'

open = urllib2.urlopen(Request(url)).read()
memoryFile = StringIO(open)

parser = PDFParser(memoryFile)

That way Python considers the url as a file (to say so).