On 2014-10-16 01:40, ryguy7272 wrote:
So sorry everyone. I've posted here several times today. This is VERY frustrating.
> So, I'm reading this link. > https://docs.python.org/2/howto/urllib2.html > > > Fetching URLs > The simplest way to use urllib2 is as follows: > import urllib2 > response = urllib2.urlopen('http://python.org/') > html = response.read() > > > So, I fire up Python, and create a new file and name it and hit F5. > > All I have is thins in the file: > import urllib2 > response = urllib2.urlopen('http://python.org/') > html = response.read() > > It immediately produces this error: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:/Python34/import_web_data.py", line 1, in <module> > import urllib2 > ImportError: No module named 'urllib2' > > > ImportError: No module named 'urllib2' > I'm telling Python to import because it doesn't exist and it throws > an error. I don't get it; I just don't get it. If I'm working with > R, I can import thousands of libraries with no errors whatsoever. > With Python, I just get thousands of errors with nothing working > whatsoever. I totally don't understand this language. Import means > import. Right. WTF!!!!! > It raises an exception because there's no such module as 'urllib2' in Python 3. You're reading the docs here: https://docs.python.org/2/howto/urllib2.html which are for Python 2, but the path you have here: C:/Python34/import_web_data.py says that you're using Python 3.4. There's an explanation of Python 2 vs Python 3 here: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
