url = "http://mc.hep.anl.gov/asc/snowmass2013/delphes36/TruthRecords/higgs14tev/pythia8/pythia8_higgs_1.promc"

try:
    remotezip = urllib2.urlopen(url)
    zipinmemory = cStringIO.StringIO(remotezip.read())
    zip = zipfile.ZipFile(zipinmemory)
    for fn in zip.namelist():
        # print fn
        if fn=="100":
             data = zip.read(fn)
             print "Read event=100"
except urllib2.HTTPError:
       print "no file"