text = "<tr colData0='Friday'>"
#Split into a list with 3 items.
text = text.split("'")
print text[1]

import sys
if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
    from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
    from urllib2 import urlopen
else:
    from html.parser import HTMLParser
    from urllib.request import urlopen
 
class MyParser(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self):
        HTMLParser.__init__(self)
        self.day = None
 
    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == 'tr':
            for key, value in attrs:
                if key == 'colData0':
                    self.day = value
 
def get_day(url):
    parser = MyParser()
    html = urlopen(url).read().decode('utf8')
    parser.feed(html)
    parser.close()
    return parser.day
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(get_day("http://www.mywebsite.com/py"))

import urllib
 
#This is a file like object. 
data = urllib.urlopen("www.daniweb.com")
 
#So we have to read() it to get the text
print data.read()