Using urlopen in Python2 and Python3
Ned Batchelder
ned at nedbatchelder.com
Mon Aug 24 13:37:50 EDT 2015
On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 1:14:20 PM UTC-4, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> In Python2 urlopen is part of urllib, but in Python3 it is part of
> urllib.request. I solved this by the following code:
> ========================================================================
> from platform import python_version
>
> if python_version()[0] < '3':
> from urllib import urlopen
> else:
> from urllib.request import urlopen
A less specific technique is:
try:
from urllib import urlopen
except ImportError:
from urllib.request import urlopen
Even better, the six package, which helps with 2/3 compatibility,
provides this:
from six.moves.urllib.request import urlopen
which works on both 2 and 3.
--Ned.
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