opening a url with urllib in python 3

Question

i\'m trying to open the URL of this API from the sunlight foundation and return the data from the page in json. this is the code Ive produced, minus the parenthesis around m

Answer 1

In Python 3 You can implement that this way:

import urllib.request
u = urllib.request.urlopen("xxxx")#The url you want to open

Pay attention: Some IDE can import urllib(Spyder) directly, while some need to import urllib.request(PyCharm).

That's because you sometimes need to explicitly import the pieces you want, so the module doesn't need to load everything up when you just want a small part of it.

Hope this will help.