[Tutor] python2 vs python3 urllib

[pierre dagenais]

On 11-04-23 06:58 PM, pierre dagenais wrote:
> The following code works as expected with python version 2.6.5, but 
> with version 3.1.2 I get the following error:
>
> pierre:/MyCode/mesProjets$ py3 test.py
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "test.py", line 3, in <module>
> sock = urllib.urlopen("http://diveintopython.org/")
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlopen'
>
>
>
>
> The code:
>
> #example 8.5 of diveintopython.org/
> import urllib
> sock = urllib.urlopen("http://diveintopython.org/")
> htmlSource = sock.read()
> sock.close()
> print (htmlSource)
>
> What is the proper syntax in version 3?
>
> Thank you,
> Your help is much appreciated.
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Thank you everybody,

The short answer was of course:
import urllib.request
instead of :
import urllib

I realize I'm still confused about packages, libraries, modules, 
classes, etc...
Right now they're all more or less the same to me. I've got some reading 
to do.
Thanks again,

Pierre