What should I use to open a url instead of urlopen in urllib3

Question

I wanted to write a piece of code like the following:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2

url = \'http://www.thefamouspeople.com/singers.php\'
html = u         


        

Answer 1

The new urllib3 library has a nice documentation here
In order to get your desired result you shuld follow that:

Import urllib3
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = 'http://www.thefamouspeople.com/singers.php'

http = urllib3.PoolManager()
response = http.request('GET', url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.data.decode('utf-8'))

The "decode utf-8" part is optional. It worked without it when i tried, but i posted the option anyway.
Source: User Guide