urlopen()
returns a bytes object, to perform string operations over it you should convert it to str
first.
for word in urlopen(WORD_URL).readlines():
WORDS.append(word.strip().decode('utf-8')) # utf-8 works in your case
To get the correct charset : How to download any(!) webpage with correct charset in python?
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