urllib does not have the request attribute

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It happend to me a few times the last week, urllib that acts up for some reason.

req = urllib.request.Request(oauth_uri)
req.add_header('User-Agent', "Python client")
resp = urllib.request.urlopen(req, bytes_)
data = resp.read().decode("utf-8")

It works, then it says req = urllib.request.Request(oauth_uri) AttributeError: module 'urllib' has no attribute 'request'and then it as sudden as it acts up, it works again.

Does anyone know how this happens and how to solve it? I need it to function reliable.

Not an answer to your question, but you could consider to use the requests library. Its very easy to use and I've never encountered any problems with it. — Vincent Beltman, Mar 08 '16 at 12:12
Did you import `urllib.request`? You need to use `import urllib.request`, not `import urllib`. — Martin Tournoij, Mar 08 '16 at 12:21
That did fix it, but still, why would it work sometimes, and other times crap it's pants? — Faling Dutchman, Mar 08 '16 at 12:25
That's strange. The only thing I can think of is that you're *sometimes* running it with Python 2, or that *sometimes* something is doing `import some_lib as urllib`. — Martin Tournoij, Mar 08 '16 at 14:00

jDo · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-08T12:35:03.943

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Probably a python 2/3 issue. Sure you're opening your script with python3?

Check this related question.

EDIT:

I think Carpetsmoker figured it out. This works here:

import urllib.request

req = urllib.request.Request("http://example.com")
req.add_header('User-Agent', "Python client")
resp = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
data = resp.read().decode("utf-8")
print(data)

I've no clue why it only works sometimes though. Maybe a subtle bug in your code? It seems extremely odd if python was to suddenly "forget" an attribute of an imported module.

edited Mar 08 '16 at 12:35

answered Mar 08 '16 at 12:19

jDo

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In 3.5.1 to be exact. I do not even have 2 installed at the moment. – Faling Dutchman Mar 08 '16 at 12:22

urllib does not have the request attribute

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