urllib.request in Python 2.7

Question

I can use urllib.request module with Python 3.1. But when I execute the same program using Python 2.7, an error comes along the lines of;

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Answer 1

use urllib2.urlopen

Answer 2

It is also possible to use six module to make code for both python2 & python3:

from six.moves import urllib
# ...
result = urllib.request.urlopen(url)

Answer 3

Take a look at http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html.

The urllib2 module is the predecessor to urllib.request/urllib.error (it has been split into those modules in Python 3.0).