ImportError : cannot import name urlopen
Solution 1
I'm going to take an educated guess and assume you are using python3. In python3, urllib2 has been split into urllib.request
and urllib.error
. See note at the top of the urllib2 page. The function you are looking for is contained in urllib.request
. Try the following:
from urllib.request import urlopen
page = urlopen("https://docs.python.org/3/howto/urllib2.html")
contents = page.read()
Solution 2
The answer to this question breaks down into two sections. The solution differs based on if you are using python 2 or python 3.
In python 3 urllib2 is no longer used. Try using urllib.request.
In python 2 you may just have a bad install or old version of urllib2. Try pip install urllib2.
plzhelp
Updated on February 20, 2020Comments
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plzhelp about 4 years
I am trying to open up an URL for my project and here is my code:
from urllib2 import urlopen page = urlopen("https://docs.python.org/3/howto/urllib2.html") contents = page.read()
It's just a simple code for a demo however, when I run the codes, I got the following error "ImportError : cannot import name urlopen"
I tried to type "pip install urllib2" into CMD and got the following error as well "Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement urllib2...no matching distribution found for urllib2"
How do I solve this error as I'm using python 2.7.12 instead of python3
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sahutchi almost 8 yearsIt works for me. Can you run import urllib2; print urllib2.__version__
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sahutchi almost 8 yearsActually, another question too - are you using python 2 or 3?
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dmlicht almost 8 yearsurllib2 is in the python standard library, so you shouldn't have to pip install it.
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plzhelp almost 8 yearsIs there another way to solve the error? :/
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dmlicht almost 8 yearsI'm thinking about it. You could upgrade to python 3 :P
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dmlicht almost 8 yearsAre you absolutely sure you're running 2.7.12? Can you run your code with
import sys; print(sys.version)
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plzhelp almost 8 yearsI got "2.7.12 <v2.7.12:d33e0cf91556....>[MSC v1.500 64 bit...]
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sahutchi almost 8 yearsFurther research is that this was answered here: stackoverflow.com/questions/2792650/…