error with parse function in lxml

Question

i have installed lxml2.2.2 on windows platform(i m using python version 2.6.5).i tried this simple command:

from lxml.html import parse 
p= parse(‘http://ww         


        

Answer 1

Since line breaks are not allowed in comments, here's my implementation of MattH's answer:

from urllib2 import urlopen
from lxml.html import parse

site_url = ('http://www.google.com')

try:
    page = parse(site_url).getroot()
except IOError:
    page = parse(urlopen(site_url)).getroot()