Changing user agent on urllib2.urlopen

Question

How can I download a webpage with a user agent other than the default one on urllib2.urlopen?

Answer 1

For python 3, urllib is split into 3 modules...

import urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(url="http://localhost/", headers={'User-Agent':' Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0'})
handler = urllib.request.urlopen(req)