urllib.request in Python 2.7

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Dananjaya picture Dananjaya · Sep 19, 2010 · Viewed 78.9k times · Source

I can use urllib.request module with Python 3.1. But when I execute the same program using Python 2.7, an error comes along the lines of; 

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'request'.

I believe this error is because theres no request module in urllib for Python 2.7. Because I need to use tweepy i'll have to stick with Python 2.7 since tweepy does not support Python 3.

So how I can use urllib.request module in Python 2.7?

Answer

jellyfish picture jellyfish · Jan 27, 2016

It is also possible to use six module to make code for both python2 & python3:

from six.moves import urllib
# ...
result = urllib.request.urlopen(url)

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