Python 3.4.1 - Reading HTTP Request Data

Question

I'm fairly new to Python and I'm trying to execute a HTTP Request to a URL that returns JSON. The code, I have is:

url = "http://myurl.com/"
req = urllib.request.Request(url)
response = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
data = response.read()

I'm getting an error reading: "'bytes' object has no attribute 'read'". I searched around, but haven't found a solution. Any suggestions?

This can't be your real code. In your real code, try `print(type(response))` and/or `print(repr(response))` to see what you've got in place of the `http.client.HTTPResponse` that this code returns. And then show us your real code and we can show you why you've got that. — abarnert, Oct 20 '14 at 20:59
The most obvious mistake that would cause this is `response = urllib.request.urlopen(req).read()`, so you're calling `read()` on the result of `read()`, but there are countless other ways you could do this, and we can't guess which one you did without an [MCVE](http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve). — abarnert, Oct 20 '14 at 20:59
duplicate http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6862770/python-3-let-json-object-accept-bytes-or-let-urlopen-output-strings — Michele d'Amico, Oct 20 '14 at 21:23

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '14 at 22:39

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You may find the requests library easier to use:

import requests
data = requests.get('http://example.com').text

or, if you need the raw, undecoded bytes,

import requests
data = requests.get('http://example.com').content

answered Oct 20 '14 at 22:39

Robᵩ

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