urlib - to use or not to use ( for web scraping )?

[wavic]

Keep reading the book. What you will use to get the webpage is insignificant in most of the cases. I am using requests and Selenium most of the times but I used to use urllib in my earlier python scripts and it works just fine. I didn't know about requests. Another reason why you may want to use the built-in module is if you do not have permissions to install anything on a machine so you must use what you have installed already. You have to know at least the basics of it.