Run this to get all the HTTP libraries involved:
sudo easy_install request urllib3 pyopenssl ndg-httpsclient pyasn1
Then you can do HTTPs requests:
url = \
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scala/" +
"scala/6d09a1ba5fffadd1d886afb66ab4496291fda3dd/" +
"src/library/scala/util/control/Breaks.scala"
import requests
code = requests.get(url).content