On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, ryguy7272 <ryanshu...@gmail.com> 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 > > Important note!: The "/2/" in the URL means those docs are for Python 2.x When using Python 3, ensure that the docs you're consulting have a "/3/" in them instead. > 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' > > You're using Python 3, and the urllib2 module no longer exists in Python 3. The URL/HTTP modules got refactored on Python 3. You want the `urllib.request` module instead. Although most folks nowadays use http://docs.python-requests.org/ instead, though it's third-party and outside the std lib.
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