How do I fix the beautifulsoup error in python while working on a web scraping project?

Question

This is the error it is showing:

value error
Traceback (most recent call last).

Code:

url = "www.flipkart.com"
html = urlopen(url)

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '19 at 20:36

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The provided code is far from a mcve but I think the problem is that the "www.flipkart.com" is missing the http:// protocol prefix.

Try url = "http://www.flipkart.com".

answered May 08 '19 at 20:36

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