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Hi, Python Web Scrapers,

I wrote a simple code to use urlopen function, but it didn't work.
I don't know what's wrong with my code.

Python 3.8.2
OS: Windows
IDE: VS Code

Here's my code

import urllib.request
url='http://python.org/'
get=urllib.request.urlopen(url)
print(get)

you can see the error picture in :
https://imgur.com/ifOMZHO

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I believe the only thing you're missing is to write 'get.read()' rather than just the 'get' in the print function.

So it should be

import urllib.request
url='http://python.org/'
get=urllib.request.urlopen(url)
print(get.read())

Hope that helps!

FYI: requests is so much more elegant code same as yours looks similar,
but there's a lot more to offer, see: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/

needs to be installed once, pip install requests (request with an s = requests)

simple example:

import requests
url='http://python.org/'
response = requests.get(https://qrznow.com/real-time-band-conditions/)
print(response.content)