urllib “module object is not callable”

Question

This is my third python project, and I\'ve received an error message: \'module object\' is not callable.

I know that this means I\'m referencing a varia

Answer 1

urllib.request is a module. urllib.request.Request is a class. Calling a module like you're currently doing raises an error. You probably want to call the class, like this:

request = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=req_headers)  # create a request object for the URL

You'll also probably want to use build_opener of urllib.request rather than just urllib:

opener = urllib.request.build_opener()  # create an opener object