Read URL File

import urllib.request as url

URL_LINK = ''

data = url.urlopen(URL_LINK)
data_bytes = data.read()
data_string = data_bytes.decode('utf8')
data.close()

def generate_line_list(multi_line_string):
    '''Input: multi-line string.  Output: a list of each line in the string.'''
    return data_string.split('\n')