urllib.error.URLError:

Question

(Python 3.4.2) I\'ve got a weird error when I run \'urllib.request.urlopen(url)\' inside of a script. If I run it directly in the Python interpreter, it works fine, but not

Answer 1

You should use urllib.parse.urlencode(), urllib.parse.urljoin(), etc functions to construct urls instead of manually joining the strings. It would take care of : -> %3A conversion e.g.:

>>> import urllib.parse
>>> urllib.parse.quote(':')
'%3A'