Reading this type of Json with Python 3 Urllib

Question

My json url has this:

{years=["2014","2015","2016"]}

How can I get this strings from URL with Python 3? I know this method but Python 3 has no urllib2 module.

import urllib2
import json
response = urllib2.urlopen('http://127.0.0.1/years.php')
data = json.load(response)   
print (data)

ImportError: No module named 'urllib2'

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlopen' :( — kadir_cakir, Jan 22 '15 at 20:45
From the Python 3 documentation for [`urllib.request`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html?highlight=urllib2): "urllib.request.urlopen() corresponds to the old urllib2.urlopen". — martineau, Jan 22 '15 at 21:55

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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Try changing the import to urllib, and use urllib.request instead. For the reason being, please refer to this SO Answer

import urllib
import json

response = urllib.request.urlopen('http://127.0.0.1/years.php')
data = json.load(response)   
print (data)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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answered Jan 22 '15 at 20:50

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