>Как решил проблему то?

 55 def getf(l):
 56     uri = l.split()
 57     print('URL: %s' % uri[1])
 58     from StringIO import StringIO
 59     import gzip
 60     request = urllib2.Request(uri[1])
 61     request.add_header('Accept-encoding', 'gzip')
 62     response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
 63     if response.info().get('Content-Encoding') == 'gzip':
 64         f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO( response.read()))
 65     else:
 66         f = response
 67     return f.read()