Python urllib.request.urlopen() returning error 10061?

Question

I\'m trying to download the HTML of a page (http://www.google.com in this case) but I\'m getting back an error. Here is my interactive prompt session:

Answer 1

The error comes from operating system level and is not related to Python. It would be same with any programming language.

Contact your network administration to see what's the matter unless you can resolve firewall issues yourself. If you need a HTTP proxy then you can configure one for urllib.