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

people who encountered the error ValueError: unknown url type: 'http or ValueError: unknown url type: b'http

while opening some url like below with urllib.request.Request 'http://localhost/simple_form/insert.php'

just change localhost to 127.0.0.1

looks like Request method is looking for a domain.something in url