Python urllib urlopen not working

Question

I am just trying to fetch data from a live web by using the urllib module, so I wrote a simple example

Here is my code:

import urllib

sock = urllib         


        

Answer 1

In Python3 you can use urllib or urllib3

urllib:

import urllib.request
with urllib.request.urlopen('http://docs.python.org') as response:
    htmlSource = response.read()

urllib3:

import urllib3
http = urllib3.PoolManager()
r = http.request('GET', 'http://docs.python.org')
htmlSource = r.data

More details could be found in the urllib or python documentation.