AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'request'

Question

When I run the following code in Python 3.3:

import urllib
tempfile = urllib.request.urlopen(\"http://yahoo.com\")

I get the following error:

Answer 1

• In visual code , u have to write import urllib.request instead of just import urllib.
• Also, whenever errors such as module x has no attribute y occurs, it's because you have named the current file same as the package you are trying to import.
• So, the way import in python works is that it first searches the current dir, and if it finds the module/package 'x' u were looking for , it assumes that it has found the target file, and searches for 'y'. And since u haven't defined 'y', the aforementioned error occurs.