[Tutor] python2 vs python3 urllib

[Alan Gauld]

"pierre dagenais" <eq742 at ncf.ca> wrote

>     sock = urllib.urlopen("http://diveintopython.org/")
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlopen'
> 
> What is the proper syntax in version 3?

using help() shows that urllib has become a package in v3.
The request module looked promising and sure enough

>>> import urllib.request as req
>>> help(req)

shows:

    urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=<object object>)
    
    urlretrieve(url, filename=None, reporthook=None, data=None)

HTH,


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