AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'request'

Question

When I run the following code in Python 3.3:

import urllib
tempfile = urllib.request.urlopen(\"http://yahoo.com\")

I get the following error:

Answer 1

The urllib module has been split into parts and renamed in Python 3 to urllib.request, urllib.parse, and urllib.error.

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Import urllib.request instead of urllib.

import urllib.request

Answer 2

If this is on PyCharm, as was mine, make sure your file name isn't urllib.py.

Answer 3

Interestingly, I noticed some IDE-depending behavior.

Both Spyder and PyCharm use the same interpreter on my machine : in PyCharm I need to do

import urllib.request

while in Spyder,

import urllib

does fine

Answer 4

• In visual code , u have to write import urllib.request instead of just import urllib.
• Also, whenever errors such as module x has no attribute y occurs, it's because you have named the current file same as the package you are trying to import.
• So, the way import in python works is that it first searches the current dir, and if it finds the module/package 'x' u were looking for , it assumes that it has found the target file, and searches for 'y'. And since u haven't defined 'y', the aforementioned error occurs.