[Tutor] Retrieving data from a web site

[Dave Angel]

On 05/19/2013 07:30 AM, Phil wrote:
> On 19/05/13 18:05, Peter Otten wrote:
>> Phil wrote:
>>
>>> My apatite having been whetted I'm now stymied because of a Ubuntu
>>> dependency problem during the installation of urllib3. This is listed as
>>> a bug. Has anyone overcome this problem?
>>>
>>> Perhaps there's another library that I can use to download data from a
>>> web page?
>>
>> You mean you are using Python 3? The replacement for urllib2 in Python
>> 3 is
>> urllib.request and a few others. There is a tool called 2to3 that can
>> help
>> you with the transition.
>>
>
> Thank you once again Peter for a very helpful reply.
>
> Under Ubuntu (I'm actually using Kubuntu) the packages are
> python-urllib3 (for python 2) and python3-urllib3. Unfortunately neither
> will install because of a dependency issue with libbz2-1.0. So I'll have
> to put this project on hold until the bug is resolved.
>

Have you simply tried using urlib.request ?  That should be built into 
Python 3.3 without any outside packages from Kubuntu.  (I haven't used 
Kubuntu, just making some bald assumptions)


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DaveA