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

I just queried the same question which is now over 5 years old.

Please note that the URL given is also old, so i substituted the python welcome page.

We can use the requests module in python 3.

I use python 3 and the solution is below:

import requests

r = requests.get('https://www.python.org/')
t = r.text

print(t)

This works and is clean.