python 中strip和split函数，readline,readlines,read的区别

       今天在抄写一段代码的时候，一个简单的爬虫，不太懂，就一句一句的查，查出了很多不会的地方，作个记录吧还是，首先把代码贴上来

#-*-coding:utf-8-*-
from urllib import urlretrieve

def firstNonBlank(lines):
    for eachLine in lines:
        if not eachLine.strip():
            continue

        else:
            return eachLine


def firstLast(webpage):
    f = open(webpage)
    lines = f.readlines()
    f.close()
    print firstNonBlank(lines),
    lines.reverse()
    print firstNonBlank(lines),

def download(url = 'http://www',
             process = firstLast):
    try:
        retval = urlretrieve(url)[0]
    except IOError:
        retval = None
    if retval:
        process(retval)


if __name__== '__main__':
    download()

首先不懂得就是urlretrieve(url)这个方法，查了一下