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

The problem is with your module import. There are multiple ways to do that in Python3.x:

from urllib.request import urlopen
urlopen('example.com/***')

or

from urllib import request
request.urlopen('example.com/***')

or

import urllib
urllib.request.urlopen('example.com/***')

Moreover, you can name the module you want to import as well:

import urllib.request as req  ## or whatever you want
req.urlopen('example.com/***')

You can use the one you prefer, but watch the sequence of modules and packages you are using.