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Python

Posted by Benji Beck
Benji Beck
5,238 Points

How do you use urllib in Python 3?

I'm trying a coding challenge but my importing of urllib is giving me tracebacks. I've tried "import urllib.reques" and "importurllib.parse"

Currently searching on the interwebs to see how to figure it out so if anyone knows, feel free to point me in the right direction. Thank you!

Todd Anderson
Todd Anderson
4,260 Points

Hmm... How are you wanting to use it?

I usually just use import requests when trying to scrape by url.

Check out this stack overflow page.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2792650/python3-error-import-error-no-module-name-urllib2#2792652

1 Answer

Benji Beck
Benji Beck
5,238 Points
Benji Beck
Benji Beck
5,238 Points

Hi Todd, Appreciate the response and link, helped quite a bit. I was able to test some of the code from stack, run through it and read it. It provided understanding as to why my original syntax didn't work and ways to improve.

I attempted a web scraping tutorial, and kept getting errors on the import. Found out the tutorial was in Python 2 which made it tricky because I just started learning python. Many thanks Todd, cheers!