[Tutor] possibly a version error

[Hugo Arts]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Cranky Frankie
<cranky.frankie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On the bottom of this web page:
>
> http://developer.yahoo.com/python/python-xml.html
>
> is a program that reads an RSS feed for the weather and then parses
> the XML to show weather data by a zip code you input. I'm trying to
> run this under Python 3.2 and get this error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "D:\MyDocs\Python\Element Tree for XML\weather.py", line 27, in <module>
>    pprint(weather_for_zip(12303))
>  File "D:\MyDocs\Python\Element Tree for XML\weather.py", line 10, in
> weather_for_zip
>    dom = minidom.parse(urllib.urlopen(url))
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlopen'
>
> I'm wondering if this is because this is Python 2.x code? Can someone
> who has 2.x try to run this and let me know if that's the problem? Is
> there a way to get this to work in Python 3.2?
>

I usually find it helpful to check the documentation before doing
anything else when I encounter errors like this in code found online.
Right here:

http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html

At the top of the page you should find the information you need
(you're right on the money, basically).

HTH,
Hugo