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urllib.request in Python 2.7


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)


Take a look at http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html.

The urllib2 module is the predecessor to urllib.request/urllib.error (it has been split into those modules in Python 3.0).