Python 3.2 Unable to import urllib2 (ImportError: No module named urllib2)

Question

I am using Windows, and I get the error:

ImportError: No module named urllib2

I think this is the solution for Linux. But how to set this in Windows?

I am using Python 3.2 and I am not able see urllib2 there in the LiB folder.

urllib2 is merged into urllib in python3.see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3108/#urllib-package — newbie, Jul 06 '11 at 10:11
I don't agree this is a duplicate since its about urllib2 and the duplicate is about urllib. Answers to both questions are distinctly useful. — Paul Rooney, Feb 10 '16 at 05:42

score 147 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

147

In python 3 urllib2 was merged into urllib. See also another Stack Overflow question and the urllib PEP 3108.

To make Python 2 code work in Python 3:

try:
    import urllib.request as urllib2
except ImportError:
    import urllib2

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

Community

answered Jul 06 '11 at 10:14

newbie

Could you be so kind to explain how to solve the problem? From the link I see that some changes were made in the package, but what with should I replace `urllib2` in the the python command to succeed installation? Replacing `urllib2` with `urllib.request` doesn't help. – Green Jul 17 '13 at 20:14
Note that you also need to add decode() to your line reader, ie change from row = line.strip().split(",") to row = line.decode().strip().split(",") – ski_squaw Apr 19 '16 at 08:53

score 24 · Answer 2 · edited May 08 '16 at 22:18

24

PYTHON 3

import urllib.request

wp = urllib.request.urlopen("http://example.com")

pw = wp.read()

print(pw)

PYTHON 2

import urllib

 import sys

 wp = urllib.urlopen("http://example.com")

 for line in wp:

     sys.stdout.write(line)

While I have tested both the Codes in respective versions.

edited May 08 '16 at 22:18

anthonyvd

answered Jul 09 '14 at 17:13

Shivam Kotwalia

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 29 '13 at 19:01

    import urllib2

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in

    import urllib2

ImportError: No module named 'urllib2' So urllib2 has been been replaced by the package : urllib.request.

Here is the PEP link (Python Enhancement Proposals )

so instead of urllib2 you can now import urllib.request and then use it like this:

    >>>import urllib.request

    >>>urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.placementyogi.com')

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