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Error: module 'urllib' has no attribute 'urlopen'


What is it then?

(beginner)

There is batteries-included urllib.request described as 'Extensible library for opening URLs' in Python documentation.

If you do:
import urllib.request

then you can access urlopen like this:

urllib.request.urlopen()


Alternatively just urlopen (if using from urllib.request import urlopen)

The import has changed in Python 3.

>>> import urllib.request
>>> 
>>> req = urllib.request.urlopen('https://www.python.org/')

But i would advice to not use urllib at all,use Requests .

>>> import requests
>>> 
>>> req = requests.get('https://www.python.org/')
>>> req.status_code
200
>>> req.encoding
'utf-8'

A typically example to load a site and do web-scraping.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

url = 'https://www.python.org/'
url_get = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(url_get.content, 'lxml')
print(soup.select('head > title')[0].text)

Output:
Welcome to Python.org