I have the same problem with that code:

(exchange USERNAME with your delicious username and PASSWORD with your 
delicious password):
 import urllib.request
 auth_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
 auth_handler.add_password('del.icio.us API', 'api.del.icio.us',
USERNAME, PASSWORD)
 opener = urllib.request.build_opener(auth_handler)
 print(str(opener.open('https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all').read(20),
"utf-8"))

And I don't use a proxy or anything like that. This makes python 3
completely unusable for me. And python 2.6 gives me what I want (the
content of that virtual file) without any extra data in front or in the
middle of the content.